On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Christopher Wirt <chris.w...@struq.com>wrote:
> I would like to switch to using LZ4 compression for my SStables. Would > simply altering the table definition mean that all newly written tables are > LZ4 and can live in harmony with the existing Snappy SStables? > Yes, per Aleksey in #cassandra @ freenode, the compressor is stored in SSTable meta-information. This means that the compressor in the config is *only* the compressor for new tables. =Rob