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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-1543: --------------------------------------- GitHub user apakulov opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/161 KAFKA-1543; Changing replication factor Adding support to change replication-factor via kafka-topics to avoid additional hassle of defining replicas explicilty. This change will allow to make this change with one line: ``` kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper host:port --alter --topic name --replication-factor 3 ``` Also, made a small cleanup by replacing old junit.framework.Assert with org.junit.Assert You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/apakulov/kafka KAFKA-1543 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/161.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #161 ---- commit ed276ffdac107afe26e82d051fbeb8fa4f67416f Author: Alexander Pakulov <a.paku...@gmail.com> Date: 2015-08-22T00:46:21Z KAFKA-1543; Changing replication factor ---- > Changing replication factor > --------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1543 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1543 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Alexey Ozeritskiy > Assignee: Alexander Pakulov > Attachments: can-change-replication.patch > > > It is difficult to change replication factor by manual editing json config. > I propose to add a key to kafka-reassign-partitions.sh command to > automatically create json config. > Example of usage > {code} > kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --zookeeper zk --replicas new-replication-factor > --topics-to-move-json-file topics-file --broker-list 1,2,3,4 --generate > > output > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)