Inder, 1. Existing data doesn't get moved to the new broker. Some of the new data will get routed to the new broker once the producer recognizes the new broker (either through ZK-based producer or vip).
2. Yes. Once the new broker gets data for a new topic, consumers will be notified and start rebalance. Thanks, Jun On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Inder Pall <inder.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand kafka by going through documents/wiki's for > usage. > Please pardon if the dev mailing list isn't appropriate to be in the TO > for > this query. > > Couple of queries. > > 1. If you add new broker boxes, how will existing topics and their > partitions be redistributed on the new broker. > 2. Does [1] trigger a re-balance process via watchers in which case if you > wanna redistribute only certain event types on the new broker, can it be > achieved dynamically. > > > -- Inder >
