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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Jay Kreps <ja...@gmail.com> on 2012/06/01 00:17:57 UTC

Re: broker id configuration?

Theoretically it should work with any set of unique ids, but we run with
sequential ids beginning with 0. If you see any problems let us know and we
will fix it.

-Jay

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:44 PM, xiaoyu wang <xi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am setting up a kafka cluster and want to use our unique id generation
> algorithm to generate broker id. The algorithm will generate an id between
> 1000-4000. Is it OK?  Based on my understanding, broker id does not affect
> how data is distributed within the cluster. Is it correct?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Xiaoyu
>