Partition reassignment wasn't fully working in 0.8-beta. So you probably will have to upgrade existing brokers to 0.8.1 before running partition reassignment. Also, 0.8.1.1 will be out soon.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:49 AM, vimpy batra <vimpyba...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We are currently running a kafka 0.8-beta cluster. We are planning to > expand the existing cluster and use 0.8.1 version on the new nodes. Before > upgrading the older ones we want the new ones to participate in the > cluster. We plan to use "reassign-partitions" tool in 0.8.1 to reassign > partitions to the newly added brokers. We will also add additional > partitions to the existing topics. Is there a best practice to go about > expanding clusters? Is this the recommended way to go or should we upgrade > our existing cluster to 0.8.1 first? > I also noticed that there are some fixes on top of 0.8.1. Are they > available to use? > > Thanks,
