Got my answer from the #cassandra channel: I can set max_compaction_threshold to 0 to prevent compaction from occurring while I rebuild everything.
Thanks! Jason Harvey On Mar 18, 5:45 pm, Jason Harvey <alie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Is there a way to prevent cassandra from compacting while it is > running? I am having to do some scrub+sstable2json->json2sstable > magic, and I don't want the data changing at all while I am in the > process. > > Thanks, > Jason