> The SSTable indices should still be scanned for size tiered compaction. > Do I miss anything here? > > No I don't think you did, in fact, depending on the size of your SSTable a contiguous range (or the entire SSTable) may or may not be affected by a cleanup/move or any type of topology change. There is lots of room for optimization here. After loading the indexes we actually know start/end range for an SSTable so we can include/exclude it in any such operation.
-- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company
