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The reason for this KIP is to remove the requirement of brokers nodes needing to run kafka-storage format before starting Kafka. When running kafka-storage format , nodes are required to supply a --cluster-id argument, which represents the cluster ID to which the node belongs, and this is persisted to the node's meta.properties file. Below are the other data that each node persists to disk upon invoking kafka-storage format :
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