[jira] [Closed] (KAFKA-188) Support multiple data directories

["Jay Kreps (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-188?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jay Kreps closed KAFKA-188.
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> Support multiple data directories
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>                 Key: KAFKA-188
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-188
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jay Kreps
>            Assignee: Jay Kreps
>             Fix For: 0.8
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>         Attachments: KAFKA-188.patch, KAFKA-188-v2.patch, KAFKA-188-v3.patch, KAFKA-188-v4.patch, KAFKA-188-v5.patch, KAFKA-188-v6.patch, KAFKA-188-v7.patch, KAFKA-188-v8.patch
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> Currently we allow only a single data directory. This means that a multi-disk configuration needs to be a RAID array or LVM volume or something like that to be mounted as a single directory.
> For a high-throughput low-reliability configuration this would mean RAID0 striping. Common wisdom in Hadoop land has it that a JBOD setup that just mounts each disk as a separate directory and does application-level balancing over these results in about 30% write-improvement. For example see this claim here:
>   http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-RAID-vs.-JBOD-p21466110.html
> It is not clear to me why this would be the case--it seems the RAID controller should be able to balance writes as well as the application so it may depend on the details of the setup.
> Nonetheless this would be really easy to implement, all you need to do is add multiple data directories and balance partition creation over these disks.
> One problem this might cause is if a particular topic is much larger than the others it might unbalance the load across the disks. The partition->disk assignment policy should probably attempt to evenly spread each topic to avoid this, rather than just trying keep the number of partitions balanced between disks.

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