bootstrap question

[Yang]

from line 396 of StorageService.java from the 0.7.0-beta2 source, it
looks that when I boot up a completely new node,
if there is not any keyspace defined in its storage.yaml,  it would
not even participate in the ring?

in other words, let's say the cassandra instance currently has 10
nodes, and hosts data for 4 keyspaces,  now the 11th node is added to
the system,
in order to shed load from the existing 10 nodes, I have to define a
dummy keyspace for the new node to trigger the startBootstrap() code
below?


sorry for the newbie question, just starting out to dig into the code ....

Thanks
Yang


            // don't bootstrap if there are no tables defined.
            if (DatabaseDescriptor.getNonSystemTables().size() > 0)
                startBootstrap(token);
            else
            {
                isBootstrapMode = false;
                SystemTable.setBootstrapped(true);
                tokenMetadata_.updateNormalToken(token,
FBUtilities.getLocalAddress());

Gossiper.instance.addLocalApplicationState(ApplicationState.STATUS,
valueFactory.normal(token));
                setMode("Normal", false);
            }