But this means that I can pick one at random - it doesn't have to be sequential as long as it's the same after restart?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Florian, > > The broker id uniquely identifies a broker. Every time a broker is > restarted, we want the broker to come up with the same id. The consumer > relies on the broker id to resume consumption properly. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Florian Leibert <f...@leibert.de> wrote: > > > Hi - > > I see there's a static broker-id in the properties files. Is this > optional? > > When using Zookeeper, couldn't ZK just give each broker if registered as > a > > SEQ node a generated ID that's guaranteed to be unique? Otherwise can > this > > ID be a randomly generated ID? Basically I'd like to bring up instances > in > > EC2 without having to worry about the state of other brokers... > > > > Thanks! > > Flo > > > -- Best regards, Florian http://twitter.com/flo <http://twitter.com/floleibert> http://flori.posterous.com/
