This is done to avoid overlap in levels > 0
There is this though: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13425
If you are restoring an entire node, starting with an empty data directory,
you should probably stop cassandra, copy the snapshot in, and restart, that
will keep the levels
On
Hello.
During the restore of a table using its snapshot and nodetool refresh, I
could see that cassandra starts to make a lot of compactions (depending on
the size of the data).
I wanted to know why and I found this in the code of cassandra 2.1.14.
for CASSANDRA-4872
+// force forei