Gwen is right, I was wrong :P kafka-topics --describe reads the ZK path that Gwen mentioned to return the replica list, which gives you the idea about replication factor as well.
Thanks, Guozhang On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > 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. > > > -- -- Guozhang
