We don't store the replication factor per-se. When the topic is created, we use the replication factor to generate replica-assignment, and the replica assignment gets stored in ZK under: /brokers/topics/<topic>/partitions/...
This is what gets modified when we re-assign replicas. Hope this helps. Gwen On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:33 PM, James Cheng <jch...@tivo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Where is the replication factor for a topic stored? It isn't listed at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+data+structures+in+Zookeeper. > But the kafka-topics --describe command returns something. Where is it > finding that? > > Thanks, > -James > > > ________________________________ > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged > material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, > or distribution of this email (or any attachments) by others is prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender > immediately and permanently delete this email and any attachments. No > employee or agent of TiVo Inc. is authorized to conclude any binding > agreement on behalf of TiVo Inc. by email. Binding agreements with TiVo > Inc. may only be made by a signed written agreement. >
