That's right.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Paul Garner <paul.gar...@rockaboxmedia.com> wrote: > sorry, just to be clear... in both 0.7 and 0.8 the offset keeps increasing, > just in 0.8 it's no longer a byte position? > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yes, in Kafka 0.7, the offset is the byte position of the message in the >> log for the topic partition. In Kafka 0.8, each message is assigned a >> monotonically increasing, contiguous sequence number per partition, >> starting with 1. So each message is addressable using this sequence number >> instead of the byte position. >> >> Also, the offset keeps increasing over the lifetime of a cluster, even if >> Kafka deletes older log segments. >> >> Thanks, >> Neha >> >> On Thursday, November 22, 2012, Paul Garner wrote: >> >> > from what I read, the message offset is the byte position of the message >> in >> > the log file that Kafka writes to >> > >> > the logs are rotated and eventually deleted by Kafka >> > >> > ...does this mean the message offset periodically goes back to start at >> > zero again? or the offset keeps increasing for the life of the cluster as >> > if it was a single big file back to the beginning of time? >> > >>
