I've had similar thoughts in the past about RACS and manual tokens. I think
it would be a good idea to be able to split it based on some configurable
factor other than vnodes. I think Marcus may have already addressed this to
some extent as well but if not it's theoretically possible.
On 20 July
Cheers Dinesh, not too worried about that one in 4.0's case though as it's
a bug but it will need a committer.
As for improvements for 4.0:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13010 - More verbose
nodetool compactionstats. Speaks for itself.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSAN
I don't want to comment on the 10540 ticket since it seems very well
focused on vnode-aligned sstable partitioning and compaction. I'm pretty
excited about that ticket. RACS should enable:
- smaller scale LCS, more constrained I/O consumption
- less sstables to hit in read path
- multithreaded/mul
