Kafka doesn’t monitor the contents of the log data directories unless it created the file or directory. If it didn’t create the directory/file it will ignore it.
-- Peter > On Mar 28, 2020, at 4:17 PM, anila devi <feluda1_99_1...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > > Hi Users, > If I create a directory or a file in the same directory where kafka creates > partition topic, the kafka broker node does not restart. Is it expected ? > Thanks,Dhiman >