Yes, the call is blocking, but is only called once per broker startup. Thanks,
Jun On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Rodenburg, Jeff <jeff.rodenb...@teamaol.com > wrote: > 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 > >> > >
