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A producer sends a message with acks=all to a topic with replication.factor=3 and min.insync.replicas=2. Two brokers fail simultaneously. What happens?

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AMessage is written to the surviving broker and acknowledged
BProducer receives NotEnoughReplicasException and the write is rejected
CMessage is queued locally and retried automatically
DKafka elects an out-of-sync replica as leader and writes succeed

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