Low Description
If an sstable of a counter column family is corrupted, the only safe solution a user have right now is to:
- Remove the NodeId System table to force the node to regenerate a new NodeId (and thus stop incrementing on it's previous, corrupted, subcount)
- Remove all the sstables for that column family on that node (this is important because otherwise the node will never get "repaired" for it's previous subcount)
This is far from being ideal, but I think this is the price we pay for avoiding the read-before-write. In any case, the first step (remove the NodeId system table) happens to remove the list of the old NodeId this node has, which could prevent us for merging the other potential previous nodeId. This is ok but sub-optimal. This ticket proposes to add a new startup flag to make the node renew it's NodeId, thus replacing this first.