Hi Jun, That would definitely solve the issue. I guess it's just a matter of timing for 0.8...
Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Jun Rao [mailto:jun...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 6:09 PM To: kafka-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Kafka 155 Matt, The main motivation for decommission is that one can let consumers drain messages from a broker before taking it out. In 0.8, we are adding intra cluster replication. So, a broker can be taken out anytime without affecting consumers. Do you still see a need for decommission then? Thanks, Jun On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Bateman, Matt <mabate...@ebay.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I see that 155 isn't targeted for a release. It deals with gracefully > decommissioning a broker. Is there another way to achieve this? In > other words, is there a way to prevent publishing to a broker but > still allow consumers to pull messages until the broker is "empty"? > > Thanks, > > Matt > >