yes LCS has its own compacting thing. It does not honor min compaction, max
compaction, and no-ops major compaction. The issue is that at the moment
you change your system moves all your sized data to L0 and then starts a
huge compaction grid to level it.
It would be great to just make this change
We tested it in QA, but in production it brought our cluster to a halt even
though we setcompactionthroughput to 1, we were severely limited. Nodetool
stop compaction did not seem to have any impact either. We ended up increasing
memory on one node to help alleviate some issue(cranked it up to
