Thanks Jun. When the broker registers the topic/partition info with Zookeeper, is that a blocking call within the broker?
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Jun Rao wrote: > A topic can have 1 or more partitions, each of which corresponds to a > directory on local storage. > > ZK registers for each topic, how many partitions are there and which > brokers are those partitions stored. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Rodenburg, Jeff < > jeff.rodenb...@teamaol.com> wrote: > >> I'm exploring the v0.7 code to understand topics and partitions and how >> those are created/managed. I'm trying to understand how cheap/expensive it >> is to create/shutdown/manage those items. A few questions: >> >> >> * "Topics" appear to be metadata on partitions, which are the actual >> objects in play. Is this accurate? >> * What is the relationship between ZK and broker regarding topics and >> partitions? >> >> I'm walking the code sequences now, but some clarification would be >> beneficial. >> >> -j >>
