Zhao Yang

> Lastly, I'll point out that this patch adds a class to represent a specific component, that is one that directly map to a single file on disk, and the...

> My primary concern is for analyzed columns. We added this logic to prevent explosion on the writers. we can enable it after migration..

@sbtourist I have removed unused methods and also changed `updateAddressForNormalTokens` to not throw on mismatched tokens

pushed a WIP rebased version for CI.. Will double check later j8: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/jasonstack/cassandra/343/workflows/43fd8122-6ffb-4f72-86d6-afa3283494ee j11: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/jasonstack/cassandra/343/workflows/39b260ed-0c64-45c0-8c51-a3de7b50d0b9

https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/jasonstack/cassandra/346/workflows/52d3b98f-cf0a-4a5e-bee3-cbb1b372c8c3

sorry for the delay, I will address all the feedback and pull in the latest SAI interface, then ping you for review

> I think this would require changing the behavior of CompactionStrategyFactory.reload() to always reload the CompactionStrategyContainer on metadata changes. we can always reload the CompactionStrategyContainer if "hasVector" changed

Thanks for the reply. > Are you manually downloading 4mb chunks of a file, then manually combining the chunks to form the file back? Not combining the chunks. > If...