Partition assigned to a dead host - no rebalancing or topic delete possible?

[Yann Schwartz <y....@criteo.com>]

Hello,


If I understood topic deletion correctly, the controller waits for all brokers to ack the partition deletion. So if a partition is assigned to a dead broker, deletion will never happen.


It seems that rebalancing pretty much works the same way, so we can't rebalance partitions (replacing the dead broker id with a valid one) since it waits for the dead broker to ack the rebalancing too.


Am I right in assuming this? If so, how can I blacklist a non functioning broker?


Thanks,


Yann