On 10/04/2011 11:46 AM, Mathias Herberts wrote: >> >> If you have the luxury of planning ahead of time, you could also stop >> writing to the broker for log.retention.hours, and then shut it down. >> > > Can the log files for a topic be moved to a new machine that does not > yet have partitions for this topic? Will the znodes be recreated when > broker discovers its log files?
Theoretically, yes. At the least you would need to restart the new host broker while removing the .kafka_cleanshutdown file.