You can read the high level design of kafka replication here http://www.slideshare.net/junrao/kafka-replication-apachecon2013
Generally if your replication factor is more than 1 you shouldn't see data loss in your test. When a broker fails, the producer will get an exception and it will retry. Thanks, Neha On May 16, 2013 10:21 PM, "Chitra Raveendran" < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I was just doing some benchmarking with a 3node cluster. If one broker goes > down , what happens? Does the producer go down ? that's what happened in my > case. > Is the data lost? Or does it get distributed amongst the other brokers? > > -- > Chitra Raveendran > Data Scientist > *Flutura | Decision Sciences & Analytics* > mail : [email protected] >
