OK. I was wrong. Hmm, assume messages all goes to broker A and was routed
to broker B after A goes down.what happens when A comes back online? If I
have a consumer that consumes the topic, is ordering guaranteed? If so, how
does kafka guarantee ordering in this case?



On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have a partitioner that always return 0, produce requests will
> always be routed to 1 broker. However, if that broker goes down, the
> requests will be routed to another broker. This is because the producer
> only route requests to live partitions.
>
> Jun
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:57 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK. I have the answer now. when I connect to brokers through zookeeper,
> the
> > record may go to any broker and the partitioner is for partition on the
> > broker.
> >
> > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Jun.
> > >
> > > I think my question is if I have a program which produces a topic with
> a
> > > partitioner that always returns 0, does all the messages go the same
> > > broker? If so, what happens if I restart the program, does the messages
> > > still go the same broker? Note that all the connections are through
> > > zookeeper.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Xiaoyu,
> > >>
> > >> A simpler way to do that is to send all produce requests to 1 broker
> and
> > >> configure that broker to have 1 partition per topic.
> > >>
> > >> Jun
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:41 PM, xiaoyu wang <xiaoyu.w...@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hello,
> > >> >
> > >> > I want to keep the order of record in my topic so I created the
> > producer
> > >> > with a partitioner that always returns 0. I have the following
> > questions
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >   - will my topic be stored in 1 broker only?
> > >> >   - If so, which broker does my topic go to?
> > >> >   - what happens if I change the partitioner later to e.g. random
> > >> >   partitoner?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> >
> > >> > -Xiaoyu
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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