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

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