Bryan, this should be improved with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10768 - could you try it out?
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com> wrote: > Sorry if I misunderstood, but are you asking about the LCS case? > > Based on our experience, I would absolutely recommend you continue with > the migration procedure. Even if the compaction strategy is the same, the > process of anticompaction is incredibly painful. We observed our test > cluster running 2.1.11 experiencing a dramatic increase in latency and not > responding to nodetool queries over JMX while anticompacting the largest > SSTables. This procedure also took several times longer than a standard > full repair. > > If you absolutely cannot perform the migration procedure, I believe 2.2.x > contains the changes to automatically set the RepairedAt flags after a full > repair, so you may be able to do a full repair on 2.2.x and then transition > directly to incremental without migrating (can someone confirm?) >