Hmm, I think Svante is correct, writes on disk-full would probably cause the underlying file system to get in a bad state, and in that sense the broker needs to be brought down for maintenance.
Guozhang On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:49 PM, svante karlsson <s...@csi.se> wrote: > >4. As for recovering broker from disk full, if replication is enabled one > >can just bring it down (the leader of the partition will then migrate to > >other brokers), clear the disk space, and bring it up again; if > replication > >is not enabled then you can first move the partitions away from this > broker > >using the partition-reassignment tool and then do the same. > > > I believe that this is handled in a rather abrupt way at the server. It > will crash and if you have replication the partition leader will move. > > However you must manually solve the disk space issue before restarting the > failed broker since replication will immediately crash it again. > > (The same thing also applies to a broken disk) > > I think that partition-reassignment requires a healthy broker but I might > be wrong on this. > > /svante > -- -- Guozhang
