That is true - replication is targeted in KAFKA-50. There is also the option to "mirror" a kafka cluster - although it does not guarantee that the brokers are fully mirrored for the tail end of the messages.
Thanks, Joel On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Mathias Herberts <mathias.herbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a safe way to decommission a broker? > > From my point of view it seems replication is a prereq to safely > remove a broker node without loosing messages. > > Anybody else has a take on this? > > Mathias. >