A production brain's first process boot after a live authority flip looked
hung and was restarted three times mid-recovery — three defects with one
scene. (1) THE FOLD MATERIALIZED THE LOG: peekFactsAbove(0) decoded every
fact into one array (GBs of after-images on a ~7k-fact log, a GC storm, a
starved write lane). The fold now STREAMS one segment-batch at a time —
memory is one segment at any log size — with structural ordering asserted
loudly. (2) THE FOLD WAS SILENT UNTIL DONE: minutes of boot work with zero
narration is what invited the restarts. It now announces itself BEFORE the
work ('do not restart, the fold is finite') and prints progress every
thousand facts. (3) THE CHAIN COULD ONLY ARM AT A CRASH: a live mid-session
flip left the fold checkpoint unfounded, so the brain's first unclean boot
paid a whole-log fold. Adoption now founds the checkpoint AT THE FLIP — one
paged full canonical barrier (bounded memory), then the stamp — so bounded
recovery holds from minute zero for every store that flips, at any size.
Pinned: a non-fresh flip stamps immediately; the first post-flip unclean
boot folds bounded (an unflushed at-ack fact above the checkpoint is
restored; a barrier-covered row below it is outside the fold). Kill matrix
and both adoption suites green alongside.
David Snelling
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