carlos / platform Public

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FIRST PROMPT: Review hostfiles-cap-live-entries at 4411ffff against the round-2 brief, read-only.

WHAT: Check both previous findings, downstream recovery behavior, and readiness to merge.

STATUS: Request changes: one P2 remains.

P2 — Skipping deep tombstones can strand the subsequent flush at restore.go:110. When the tombstoned file still exists at the destination, Restore now reports success without removing it. The new regression fixture demonstrates the exact boundary: its parent directory is 4095 bytes, but the remaining file is 4097 bytes. A subsequent scan returns ErrTooDeep; ReleaseFlushFiles.Flush:137 therefore never commits. Relocation’s EndProbe requires that flush before stopping the probe, so retries cannot progress and the deadline ultimately leaves the operation stuck. Establish itself succeeds because it copies the manifest without scanning disk.

The first round-1 P2 is closed. The second fix removes the unbounded tombstone traversal, but leaves this downstream failure. Cap-free StageDelete introduces no reader incompatibility: it only replaces an existing entry with an accepted tombstone. A scan encountering a live over-cap path fails before its deletion phase, so it cannot wrongly retire that file.

No other findings. The census envelope hash matches; the legacy seal is unchanged. This was static review; no tests were run, including the full internal/host suite.

NEEDED: Nothing from you for this review.

RECOMMENDED: Resolve existing deep tombstones without unbounded traversal, and test restore → scan → commit plus the relocation flush. Not ready to merge after the freeze until that path is addressed.

SESSION: Safe to close. HEAD and working tree are unchanged; no files or background processes were created.