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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-3470:
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Adding an extra "digit" here is hardly confusing, and pales next to the benefit
of being able to add forwards-compatible improvements to sstable metadata
without breaking streaming (the reason you need to scrub) between minor
releases.
> Add a second letter to Descriptor version
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> Key: CASSANDRA-3470
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3470
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Yuki Morishita
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.0.3
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> Versions g and h are actually forwards-compatible with version f, and more
> changes like that are easily forseeable (e.g., CASSANDRA-3407).
> It would be nice to have an extra version digit (h1, h2, ... ha, hb, ...).
> Otherwise our choices are forcing people to scrub for these changes
> (unacceptable) or not updating the Descriptor version, which is suboptimal
> since we don't know what the contents are until we try to read it and find
> the latest parts missing.
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