diff --git a/dht/i_partitioner.hh b/dht/i_partitioner.hh
index 9cc37d54f7..406495b61f 100644
--- a/dht/i_partitioner.hh
+++ b/dht/i_partitioner.hh
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public:
     /**
      * @return name of partitioner.
      */
-    virtual const bytes name() = 0;
+    virtual const sstring name() = 0;
 protected:
     /**
      * @return true if t1's _data array is equal t2's. _kind comparison should be done separately.
diff --git a/dht/murmur3_partitioner.hh b/dht/murmur3_partitioner.hh
index 89f5b21918..c773c69856 100644
--- a/dht/murmur3_partitioner.hh
+++ b/dht/murmur3_partitioner.hh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace dht {
 
 class murmur3_partitioner final : public i_partitioner {
 public:
-    virtual const bytes name() { return "org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner"; }
+    virtual const sstring name() { return "org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner"; }
     virtual token get_token(const schema& s, partition_key_view key) override;
     virtual token get_token(const sstables::key_view& key) override;
     virtual token get_random_token() override;
diff --git a/sstables/sstables.cc b/sstables/sstables.cc
index 86870e85e3..75dc7e9a07 100644
--- a/sstables/sstables.cc
+++ b/sstables/sstables.cc
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ static void maybe_add_summary_entry(summary& s, bytes_view key, uint64_t offset)
 // In the beginning of the statistics file, there is a disk_hash used to
 // map each metadata type to its correspondent position in the file.
 static void seal_statistics(statistics& s, metadata_collector& collector,
-        const bytes partitioner, double bloom_filter_fp_chance) {
+        const sstring partitioner, double bloom_filter_fp_chance) {
     static constexpr int METADATA_TYPE_COUNT = 3;
 
     size_t old_offset, offset = 0;
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static void seal_statistics(statistics& s, metadata_collector& collector,
     stats_metadata stats;
 
     old_offset = offset;
-    validation.partitioner.value = partitioner;
+    validation.partitioner.value = to_bytes(partitioner);
     validation.filter_chance = bloom_filter_fp_chance;
     offset += validation.serialized_size();
     s.contents[metadata_type::Validation] = std::make_unique<validation_metadata>(std::move(validation));