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Jeremy Hanna edited comment on CASSANDRA-8928 at 6/14/16 4:50 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------------ [~pauloricardomg] I didn't realize that a later version sstable loader could write to an earlier version cluster. It makes sense with backwards compatible streaming, but I didn't know if there were other obstacles to get that to work. That should be good then I think. Thanks. was (Author: jeromatron): [~pauloricardomg] I didn't realize that a later version sstable loader could write to an earlier version cluster. That would work. Thanks. > Add downgradesstables > --------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8928 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8928 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Tools > Reporter: Jeremy Hanna > Assignee: Kaide Mu > Priority: Minor > Labels: gsoc2016, mentor > > As mentioned in other places such as CASSANDRA-8047 and in the wild, > sometimes you need to go back. A downgrade sstables utility would be nice > for a lot of reasons and I don't know that supporting going back to the > previous major version format would be too much code since we already support > reading the previous version. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)