I have a broker cluster configured with auto.create.topics.enable=true. Observing tcpdump output while using kafka-console-producer.sh to send a message with a previously nonexistent topic, it appears that the producer instructs the broker to create the topic by sending a metadata request for that specific topic. After sending such a request, I see a single partition for the newly created topic, and it has only one replica. Is there a way to specify a replication factor greater than 1?
Thanks, Dave
