[CASSANDRA-14099] LCS ordering of sstables by timestamp is inverted

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.4, 4.0-alpha2, 4.0
• Component/s: Local/Compaction
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Vincent White
• Reporter: Jeff Jirsa

Authors

Vincent White

• Created: 06/Dec/17 18:21
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:36
• Resolved: 15/Oct/19 01:40

Description

In CASSANDRA-14010 we discovered that CASSANDRA-13776 broke sstable ordering by timestamp (inverted it accidentally). Investigating that revealed that the comparator was expecting newest-to-oldest for read command, but LCS expects oldest-to-newest.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-14870 The order of application of nodetool garbagecollect is broken