Dong Lin's KIP - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-112%3A+Handle+disk+failure+for+JBOD
Should give you some ideas. On 11 July 2018 at 14:31, Ali Nazemian <alinazem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering what the disk recommendation is for Kafka cluster? Is it > acceptable to use RAID0 in the case that replication is 3? We are running > on a cloud infrastructure and disk failure is addressed at another level, > so the chance of single disk failure would be very low. Besides, our > version of Kafka does not fully support JBOD as even a single disk failure > can stop a Kafka broker, so we will not get the actual benefit of using > JBOD anyway. However, I am not quite sure how software raid acts in this > situation as there is no option to use HW Raid on cloud. > > Regards, > Ali >