Actually, you don't need to reassign partitions in this case. You just need to replace the bad disk and restart the broker. It will copy the missing data over automatically.
Thanks, Jun On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:02 AM, svante karlsson <s...@csi.se> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle a disk failure in a live > environment. > > The obvious (and naive) solution is to decommission the broker and let > other brokers taker over and create new followers. Then replace the disk > and clean the remaining log directories and add the broker again. > > The disadvantage with this approach is of course the network overhead and > the time it takes to reassign partitions. > > Is there a better way? > > As a sub question, is it possible to continue running a broker with a > failed drive and still serve the remaining partitions? > > thanks, > svante >
