[CASSANDRA-11817] Change the way LCS major compaction works

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 5.x
• Component/s: Local/Compaction
• Labels: lcs
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marcus Eriksson
• Created: 17/May/16 16:19
• Updated: 07/Mar/23 10:53

Description

Currently we start writing in L1 and then continue in L2 once L1 is full, it is probably better to pick a high level and write all sstables to that level.

I suspect that the end result will be basically the same without a bunch of pointless single-sstable compactions into an empty space in level+1