[KAFKA-281] support multiple root log directories

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jun Rao
• Created: 22/Feb/12 17:58
• Updated: 08/Jan/13 23:28
• Resolved: 08/Jan/13 23:28

Description

Currently, the log layout is

{log.dir}/topicname-partitionid and one can only specify 1 {log.dir}

. This limits the # of topics we can have per broker. We can potentially support multiple directories for

{log.dir}

and just assign topics using hashing or round-robin.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: KAFKA-188 Support multiple data directories