Hello, I am wondering if there is any reason as to why the SS Table format doesn't have a GUID. As far as I can tell, the incrementing number isn't really used for any special purpose in code, and having a unique name for the file seems to be a better thing, in general.
Specifically, this causes some inconvenience when restoring snapshots. Ideally, I would like to restore just the system* keyspaces and boot the node. Then, once the node is taking live traffic copy the SS Tables over and do a DSE restart at the end to load old data. The problem is it is possible to overwrite new data with old files if the file names match. I can't change the file names of snapshot-ed file to a huge number, because as soon as that file is copied over, C* will use that number in its get-next-number-gen logic potentially causing the same problem for the next snapshot-ed file. How do people usually tackle this ? Is there some easy solution that I am not seeing ? Thanks !
