[CASSANDRA-5074] Add an official way to disable compaction

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0 beta 1
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 18/Dec/12 16:13
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 09/Apr/13 16:38

Description

We've traditionally used "min or max compaction threshold = 0" to disable compaction, but this isn't exactly intuitive and it's inconsistently implemented – allowed from jmx, not allowed from cli.