[CASSANDRA-13990] Remove OldNetworkTopologyStrategy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha3, 4.0
• Component/s: Local/Config
• Labels: lhf
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/7c5904753f4ede492f1a5a5e68edfe37651a5be6

Test and Documentation Plan

Ran `ant test`. 3 test suites failed (IndexSummaryTest, ConnectionTest, and RepairJobTest), but they were failing on trunk as well.

• Assignee: Anthony Grasso
• Reporter: Jeremy Hanna

Authors

sedulam

Reviewers

Anthony Grasso

• Created: 03/Nov/17 15:03
• Updated: 25/Nov/20 03:48
• Resolved: 29/Nov/19 09:53

Description

RackAwareStrategy was renamed OldNetworkTopologyStrategy back in 0.7 (CASSANDRA-1392) and it's still around. Is there any reason to keep this relatively dead code in the codebase at this point? I'm not aware of its use and it sometimes confuses users.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-16301 upgrade from C* 3.11.9 to 4.0-beta3 fails if 3.11.9 is configured with OldNetworkTopologyStrategy