Read-SLA fix (rc12→rc13 — cpu-cgroup starvation → multi-second p99 + churning
elections):
- offload.rs: add SEARCH_GATE semaphore (core_count+1 permits, 50ms shed to 429)
so per-shard searches gate on CPU, not reactor threads; concurrent scatter_merge
fan-out (join_all) replaces the serial blocking offload_region_read loop
- node.rs: scatter_merge → async; per-shard futures run via offload_search
(each acquires one SEARCH_GATE permit, moves it into spawn_blocking so the
permit is held for the search's full CPU lifetime)
- main.rs: explicit tokio runtime with worker_threads floored at 4, independent
of the cgroup quota — keeps the control plane (heartbeat/election/apply) on its
own workers even when quota < 4
- k8s statefulset: CPU limit 2→3 (was: available_parallelism()=2 → only 2 async
workers; search burst starved the reactor)
- tidal/wal/compaction.rs: WAL_RETENTION_SEGMENTS 4→16 (64 MiB→256 MiB per-shard
catch-up window; a briefly-down follower across a rolling restart streams up
instead of forcing snapshot reseed; disk floor 768 MiB/pod, self-trimming)
- cluster_reseed.rs: OFFLINE_ITEMS 1800→5600 to exceed the new 16-segment
retention window (19 segs > 17); fix sequential quarantine/reseed race via
await_status_bool
tidalctl S3/R2 backup DR:
- tidalctl/Cargo.toml: aws-config, aws-sdk-s3, aws-credential-types, tokio, tempfile
- commands/s3.rs: S3Target + export_dir (upload every file, manifest last as
atomicity marker) + import_to_dir (download prefix into temp staging dir)
- commands/backup.rs: run_backup/run_restore accept Option<&S3Target>; S3 export
is additive after local fsync barrier; S3 import stages into TempDir then runs
the unchanged verified restore on it
- main.rs: --s3-endpoint / --s3-bucket / --s3-prefix flags; all-or-nothing
endpoint+bucket validation; usage updated
tidal-stress/k8s: recall-rc12-spread-job, soak-nightly-cronjob, soak-monitor,
soak-results-pvc, t5-readtput-job manifests
Root-caused and fixed five sharding bugs exposed on the real k3s 3-shard
cluster (rc5→rc7), plus a divergent-rejoin reseed loop found in rc9:
1. reseed shard-awareness (Bug 3, keystone): `run_boot_install_for_region`
visits each hosted group's own shard subdir; per-group leader discovery
appends `?shard=N` so a divergent shard heals from its own leader (not
shard-0's WAL/term — cross-shard contamination).
2. leader self-join term (Bug 4): `become_leader_for_term` now calls
`note_self_won_term` so the elected shard's `joined_term` is set and
`cluster_promote` routes rebalances correctly (was: topology-era mis-read
→ legacy fenced promote → 500).
3. boot self-heal self-pull guard (Bug 2): `leader_shard != my_shard` gate
prevents a node pulling its own stream (its stream isn't a registered peer)
→ eliminates the `PeerUnreachable(self)` loop.
4. scatter-merge degraded partial (Bug 1): failed shard logs + continues
instead of `?`-failing the whole read; bounded read-admission semaphore
(`offload.rs`) sheds as 429 instead of piling into a 36s p99.
5. WAL retention (Bug 5): `compact_wal_retained` keeps `WAL_RETENTION_SEGMENTS=4`
most-recent sealed segments; online path gets the same retention clamp.
Prevents brief-restart forced-reseed.
6. divergent-rejoin reseed loop (Bug 6, rc9): `note_quarantined` latches
`from_seqno = stream_baseline` (not `frontier + 1`) so `wal_covers`
returns `needed=true` and the snapshot installs instead of looping.
Also: `TidalDb::close_shared` for deterministic HNSW save on cluster SIGTERM
(HNSW graph was not saved when request-scoped Arc clones were alive at shutdown);
updated profiling doc with full rc8/rc9 fix narrative; k8s recall job YAMLs.
Kind-3 term markers in the WAL stream, STREAM-relative vote frontiers,
heartbeat-only divergence detection + quarantine, and fenced promote.
Elections converge in 0.6–1.0s; zero acked-write loss across all kill points.
Closes G5 (leaderless recovery) from the v0.9 wave.
WAL segment format: 8-byte TSEG header (magic + version byte + 3 reserved)
prepended to every new segment. Legacy headerless segments (m0-m11p3) read
as implicit v0 — no migration. Unknown magic/version surfaces as
WalError::SegmentFormatUnknown at open time; foreign files are never
repaired or truncated (fixes the silent data-loss path from the p3 rollout
incident where torn-tail repair zeroed a follower's unreadable segments).
Catch-up transport: FAILED_PRECONDITION ("snapshot required") and stream
errors that skip the shard now arm a timer retry (re-arm-on-skip is the
load-bearing liveness fix — without it a skipped pull never re-fires and
the follower stays permanently behind). Single retry pending per shard;
CatchupRunner owns the Arc'd state shared between the retry tasks and the
transport. Test: tidal-net/tests/catchup_retry.rs covers the retry path.
Stress: k8s stress-job-t2a/t2b yaml + ops/stress-test-p3-t2 runbook.
ack=quorum gates replicated writes on a majority of the replica set durably
holding them: followers push their durably-applied frontier (ReportApplied,
once per apply round, decoupled from ship acks), the leader folds frontier
reports + ship-ack hints + heal resumes into a leadership-scoped CommitIndex
(k-th-largest durable mark), and handlers await it through an async
watch-channel bridge (zero parked threads per waiter). Honest timeouts:
retryable 503 naming the laggards; x-tidal-seq on every cluster write.
Follower blob applies are batched under group-commit fsyncs (22x seeding).
Exit gate: 167/167 leader-SIGKILL kill points, zero acked-write loss.
Seven-dimension review pass (all confirmed findings fixed):
- WAL blob drain now ABORTS on the first write failure instead of reusing
the failed seqno mid-drain (a torn record buried mid-segment would
truncate every later acked record on replay)
- apply_replicated_blobs waits every staged append even after a mid-batch
failure, parses metadata once, and moves records into Arcs shared with
the WAL writer (no deep clone per record on the follower apply path)
- CommitIndex: zero-peer fast path now respects demotion (active checked
under lock before the single-replica return), k-th-largest uses
select_nth over a reused scratch buffer
- await_quorum: re-reads the index once after the deadline fires (no false
503 for a write that committed in the race window), warns when the
commit-watch bridge dies outside shutdown, zero-peer path checks active
- notify_applied report failures: WARN on the first failure of a streak,
INFO on recovery (a silently stalling frontier reads as unexplained
quorum 503s); receiver skips re-notifying unadvanced frontiers
- x-tidal-deduplicated: 1 marks dedup-suppressed signal writes (relayed
through forwards) so durability cursors can tell dedup from no-seqno
- docs: 167/167 kill-point record corrected in CHANGELOG; rolling-upgrade
order (leader first — a pre-m11p3 leader silently downgrades quorum
requests to leader-ack) in CHANGELOG + runbook §8; monitoring note for
report-loss diagnosis on the quorum-timeout alert
Verified: workspace clippy -D warnings (incl. cluster-e2e targets), full
tidaldb/tidal-net/tidal-server/tidalctl suites green, tier-3 multi-process
quorum suite green (8/8 kill points, zero acked loss, partition gate/recover).
m11p1 — decoupled ack/ship path: staged writes (seqno+WAL+relay-push,
microseconds) separate from group-commit fsync; ShipQueue batches+windows
outbound segments; receiver coalesces inbound chunks before applying.
Adds first tidaldb_cluster_* metrics.
m11p2 — leader WAL is now THE replicated log: fsynced batches feed a
bounded WalShipFeed and ship byte-identical to followers; WAL seqnos
survive restarts (relay-reset hazard gone). Item metadata and embeddings
journal kind-1/2 blob records on the same stream as signals; the m8p10
HTTP broadcast is deleted. StreamSegments catch-up is follower-pulled via
server-streaming RPC, triggered on gap detection, follower boot, and
leader heal nudge. Promote carries a stream baseline so peers skip
pre-stream history.
Resolves every finding in docs/reviews/M0-M10-code-review-2026-06-08-pass2.md
across the engine, network, server, and CLI crates: session restore,
replication/CRDT, WAL format and recovery, storage indexes, query/ranking
executors, cohort/community governance, and scatter-gather routing.
Adds regression tests:
- review_pass2_creator_search_filter
- review_pass2_d_replication
- review_pass2_query_for_session
- review_pass2_storage_indexes_bitmap_cache
- review_pass2_zone_a_sessions
Verified: cargo clippy -D warnings and full test suite green across all crates.
- Eliminate the tidal/ self-contained doc mirror; docs now have two canonical
homes (root *.md and docs/), with planning/specs/research/reviews moved up
- Remove stale .agents/skills and .ai mirrors; canonicalize skills under .claude/
- Add pre-commit hook + scripts/check-docs.sh doc-guard + scripts/install-hooks.sh
- Implement M0-M10 seven-dimension review findings across engine, net, server,
and tidalctl (durability, replication, query, WAL, storage, CLI hardening)
Resolves the 142 findings from tidal/docs/reviews/CODE_REVIEW_m0-m10.md across
the engine, server, net, and CLI surfaces:
- WAL/session-journal durability, checkpoint format, and crash-recovery hardening
- Replication shipper/receiver, tenant isolation, and migration paths
- Cluster scatter-gather, router, standalone server + health/offload endpoints
- tidalctl refactored into command modules with JSON output and WAL-state tooling
- Cohort, governance, signal-ledger, and vector-registry correctness fixes
- Expanded UAT/integration/durability test coverage across all milestones
- Extract redeliver_missed(tx, db, log) helper into cluster_transport.rs
- heal_region now removes partition then immediately ships any missed
batch-log entries to the healed follower's channel
- await_convergence refactored to call the same helper (no logic change)
- tidal-server: reload_text_index before search in cluster mode
- tidal-server: write_signal returns Result instead of panicking on unknown signal
- tidal-server: leader shows lag_events=0 (writes directly, no receiver thread)
- tidal-server: fix cluster mode error propagation (ServerError::from)
- docs/runbooks/cluster.md: add full cluster operations runbook
- docker/: add Dockerfile for containerised cluster deployment
- README.md: add tidal-server HTTP API getting-started section
- Split oversized source files per CODING_GUIDELINES §9
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- m0p3: CONTRIBUTING.md with run-samples checklist, all 4 examples
(quickstart, cli_embedding, axum_embedding, actix_embedding), doc-test
coverage for every public API surface
- m1p5: TidalDb public API — write_item, signal, read_decay_score,
read_windowed_count, read_velocity; StorageBox enum routing memory vs
fjall; WalSender/WalHandleWriter bridge; WAL replay on open
- Periodic checkpoint: 30s background thread for persistent+schema mode;
FjallBackend::Clone (O(1), fjall::Keyspace is ref-counted); graceful
shutdown via Arc<AtomicBool> + join before final checkpoint
- ROADMAP.md: M0 and M1 fully marked COMPLETE (341 tests passing)
- Milestone 2 planning scaffolding added under docs/planning/milestone-2/
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