General usefulness of "write only mode"

I wanted to see if this was generally useful before I just made a ticket. The scenario is a read heavy workload. Running a major compaction or cleanup significantly reduces throughput to the point that the compaction drags on for a long time, performance dramatically degrades, etc. I can disable

Jenkins build is back to stable : Cassandra-0.7-Coverage #34

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Re: [VOTE RESULTS] was: [VOTE] Apache Cassandra 0.8.0-beta1 (take #2)

I am in the process of ensuring that the 0.8 poms are correct. it is taking slightly longer than I expected as I got pulled into firefighting with aws/skynet and my wife has banned me from the computer this weekend! I'll call a vote for them early next week (needs a vote under apache rules, that