The broker actually iterates every message in the produce request and validates its crc. If the crc check fails, the request fails and none of the data is added to the broker.
Jun On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tim Lossen <t...@lossen.de> wrote: > hi, > > is it possible for a faulty client to "corrupt" a topic on the broker, > so that consumers cannot consume messages any more? or does > the broker protect itself against this? > > i am asking because we seem to have run into such a situation. > we are using a perl producer and a ruby consumer. the per lib might > be a bit outdated. > > cheers > tim > > -- > http://tim.lossen.de > >
