[CASSANDRA-17683] Address CASSANDRA-16844 and CASSANDRA-16976 breaking compatibility

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-beta1, 4.1
• Component/s: Tool/nodetool
• Bug Category: Degradation - Other Exception
• Severity: Critical
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: Code Inspection
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 4.1-alpha

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/b75d56fd387a3af2706f75c0536cf112fdf6b788

Test and Documentation Plan

run CI

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: David Capwell

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

David Capwell, Ekaterina Dimitrova

• Created: 07/Jun/22 00:22
• Updated: 19/Jan/23 15:39
• Resolved: 29/Jun/22 15:20

Description

Compactionstats changed the output format, which causes a breaking change in a minor release; this goes against the projects guidelines for a minor release and needs to be addressed before releasing 4.1

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-18139 Revert changes to units output in FileUtils#stringifyFileSize
• is related to: CASSANDRA-16844 Add number of sstables in a compaction to compactionstats output
• relates to: CASSANDRA-16976 Make nodetool compactionstats and sstable_tasks consistent
• links to: CI: trunk
• links to: PR: trunk