diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/config/Config.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/config/Config.java
index 409a9bfed5..342223935a 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/config/Config.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/config/Config.java
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ public class Config
 
     public boolean enable_sasi_indexes = true;
 
-    public volatile boolean enable_drop_compact_storage = true;
+    public volatile boolean enable_drop_compact_storage = false;
 
     /**
      * Optionally disable asynchronous UDF execution.