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Gwen Shapira commented on KAFKA-2510:
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Note that if you accidentally manage to set an entire cluster to the wrong
directory (easy when Chef or similar manages your configuration), you also lose
the consumer offsets - so only clients that use external offset store will even
notice that the data is gone.
Losing ALL data in the cluster without any errors is a huge problem.
> Prevent broker from re-replicating / losing data due to disk misconfiguration
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> Key: KAFKA-2510
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2510
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Gwen Shapira
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> Currently Kafka assumes that whatever it sees in the data directory is the
> correct state of the data.
> This means that if an admin mistakenly configures Chef to use wrong data
> directory, one of the following can happen:
> 1. The broker will replicate a bunch of partitions and take over the network
> 2. If you did this to enough brokers, you can lose entire topics and
> partitions.
> We have information about existing topics, partitions and their ISR in
> zookeeper.
> We need a mode in which if a broker starts, is in ISR for a partition and
> doesn't have any data or directory for the partition, the broker will issue a
> huge ERROR in the log and refuse to do anything for the partition.
> [~fpj] worked on the problem for ZK and had some ideas on what is required
> here.
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