"me" sstable format includes an important feature of storing the
`host_id` of the local node when writing sstables. The is crucial
for validating the sstable's `replay_position` in stats metadata as
it is valid only on the originating node and shard (#10080), therefor
we would like to make the `me` format mandatory.
before making `me` mandatory, we need to stop handling `sstable_format`
option if it is "md".
in this change
- gms/feature_service: do not disable `ME_SSTABLE_FORMAT` even if
`sstable_format` is configured with "md". and in that case, instead,
a warning is printed in the logging message to note that
this setting is not valid anymore.
- docs/architecture/sstable: note that "me" is used by default now.
after this change, "sstable_format" will only accept "me" if it's
explicitly configured. and when a server with this change joins a
cluster, it uses "md" if the any of the node in the cluster still has
`sstable_format`. practically, this change makes "me" mandatory
in a 6.x cluster, assuming this change will be included in 6.x
releases.
Fixes#16551
Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <kefu.chai@scylladb.com>
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/13578
Now that the documentation is versioned, we can remove
the .. versionadded:: and .. versionchanged:: information
(especially that the latter is hard to maintain and now
outdated), as well as the outdated information about
experimental features in very old releases.
This commit removes that information and nothing else.
Closes#13680
