Using 0.9.0.1. I'm building a new topic that should keep data for much longer than the brokers' default, say at least a year, before deleting messages. http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html says setting the "retention.ms" for the topic will adjust the time, but I cannot find out what unit of time Kafka uses for this. "ms" would suggest "milliseconds", so a year would be about 3.154e+13 milliseconds. This seems like an uncomforatably-high number to give.
Can anyone else confirm this time unit for "retention.ms" for the topic config is in milliseconds? Is there also a "retention.minutes" that's just undocumented? Thanks! Lawrence Weikum
