perf(core): bound pre-seal v3 state

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Summary

• Stream the schema-v3 pre-seal manifest into authenticated private scratch and fold hardlink evidence without retaining the complete manifest.
• Drain the historical BFS directory vector into an anonymous authenticated descriptor-only plan, removing the last resident state proportional to directory count.
• Require st_nlink == 0 immediately after unlink and before generating the frame key or writing plan payload.
• Read frames in reverse without an offset table, and reconstruct only the current record's root-to-target ancestor chain, bounded by depth 128.
• Derive post-seal directory modes from the unique matching applied WAL mutation, failing closed on missing, duplicate, inverse, unapplied, or inconsistent records.

Preserved behavior. BFS plan production and reverse-BFS sealing; source-parent mutation ID 0 with directory mutation IDs beginning at 1; intent → held-FD mutation → applied ordering; WAL codec, version, and frame bytes; recovery transitions; and the existing entry, directory, depth, path, and manifest limits. Simply changing traversal order would have broken the durable BFS-derived mutation IDs, so the plan preserves them explicitly.

Cost. The reverse reader accepts repeated forward scans to avoid a resident offset table. Worst-case time is O(D²) with D ≤ 1023, while resident memory stays fixed metadata plus one record plus the active ancestor chain.

Validation

Passed locally on this branch:

cargo test --workspace --locked
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings
cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl -- -D warnings
cargo check --workspace --release --locked --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo fmt --all -- --check
git diff --check

The workspace run completed 1,542 passing executions with 0 failures, including 511 of 511 in degu-core. The musl commands are cross-compile and lint checks from macOS; the final static link stays a Linux CI job.

Safety

• Splitting the work into a stack changed review history, not behaviour. The stack did diverge from the original single-commit checkpoint during review, by exactly four corrections: two Clippy fixes, holding each scratch run's descriptor from creation so replacement detection no longer depends on inode-number allocation, and one review fix to directory-mode normalization. Every branch passes the full workspace suite on its own.
• Filesystem authority and the WAL contract are unchanged throughout; every new bound is enforced by fail-closed checks rather than by trusting a smaller in-memory view.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Staging renames now process tree data incrementally, improving scalability for large directory trees.
  • Directory permissions are preserved and applied consistently during staging.
  • Rename operations now support stronger integrity verification of directory metadata.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved recovery after interruptions or crashes during staging, including cleanup of incomplete temporary data.
  • Corrupted staging metadata is detected before changes are applied, preventing partial directory updates.
  • Restart verification now more reliably restores interrupted operations to a safe state.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change replaces in-memory pre-seal inventory handling with streamed manifest scratch, authenticated anonymous directory plans, reverse-order WAL-bound directory sealing, and post-seal expectation reconstruction. Tests cover integrity validation, cleanup, restart recovery, and crash boundaries.

Changes

Pre-seal streaming pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inventory collection and directory plan encoding crates/degu-core/src/backend/held.rs, crates/degu-core/src/backend/held/tests.rs	Schema-v3 traversal emits manifest records to scratch, retains BFS directory evidence temporarily, and encodes validated directory plan records.
Authenticated sidecar storage and scratch folding crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar.rs, crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar/scratch.rs	The sidecar creates anonymous HMAC-authenticated directory plans, supports forward and reverse iteration, preserves manifest scratch during hardlink folding, and validates cleanup behavior.
Applied WAL mode projection crates/degu-core/src/seal/wal.rs	SealWal::applied_tree_seal_mode returns matching applied tree-seal modes for exact path and object evidence.
Staging integration and recovery tests crates/degu-core/src/staging/rename.rs, crates/degu-core/src/staging/rename/tests.rs	Staging validates the plan, seals directories in reverse order, reconstructs post-seal expectations from WAL evidence, and verifies corruption, cleanup, restart, and crash boundaries.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ab61f

No material merge-blocking risk is established at the current head; only an optional internal deduplication remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant execute_prepared_rename
  participant TreeSidecarStore
  participant TreeDirectoryPlan
  participant SealWal
  participant ManifestScratch
  execute_prepared_rename->>TreeSidecarStore: collect manifest and directory scratch
  TreeSidecarStore->>TreeDirectoryPlan: build and authenticate directory plan
  execute_prepared_rename->>TreeDirectoryPlan: validate and reverse-iterate records
  execute_prepared_rename->>SealWal: apply directory seal mutations
  execute_prepared_rename->>ManifestScratch: reread manifest with applied modes
  ManifestScratch->>execute_prepared_rename: return post-seal expectation

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 51.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 90 functions across 7 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: bounding pre-seal v3 resident state through a performance-focused implementation.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar/scratch.rs (1)

1535-1562: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Extract the shared plan-frame HMAC helper as an optional refactor.

Both helpers use identical pad construction and digest input ordering. Only their domain constants differ. No current security behavior differs; a shared helper would only reduce future drift.

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In `@crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar/scratch.rs` around lines 1535 - 1562,
Extract the shared HMAC pad construction and digest sequence from
directory_plan_frame_tag into a reusable helper that accepts the domain
constant, key, transaction, ordinal, length, and record; update
directory_plan_frame_tag to call it while preserving its existing domain and
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In `@crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar/scratch.rs`:
- Around line 1535-1562: Extract the shared HMAC pad construction and digest
sequence from directory_plan_frame_tag into a reusable helper that accepts the
domain constant, key, transaction, ordinal, length, and record; update
directory_plan_frame_tag to call it while preserving its existing domain and
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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 5481c97 and ab61fe4.

📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• crates/degu-core/src/backend/held.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/backend/held/tests.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/seal/sidecar/scratch.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/seal/wal.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/staging/rename.rs
• crates/degu-core/src/staging/rename/tests.rs

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