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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (1)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change updates ZeroDB to format version 2. Meta pages can store freed-page IDs in a CRC-covered annex. Transaction allocation, free-page accounting, checking, copying, and documentation now include the annex, with GC-tree spill when the merged set exceeds annex capacity. ChangesMeta free-list annex
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Writer as RwTxn
participant Readers as Oldest-reader gate
participant GCTree as GC tree
participant Meta as Meta page
participant Snapshot as Published snapshot
Writer->>GCTree: Try GC-tree allocation
Writer->>Readers: Check base txnid against oldest reader
Readers-->>Writer: Reader eligibility
Writer->>Meta: Draw eligible annex IDs
Writer->>GCTree: Store merged free set when annex capacity is exceeded
Writer->>Meta: Encode outgoing annex and CRC
Writer->>Snapshot: Publish outgoing annex
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Correct the benchmark summary and format-version table before merging or accept these bounded documentation discrepancies as follow-up work. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The inspected design preserves page-validation and reader-isolation controls, and no introduced security vulnerability was established. The incompatible file format and new free-page lifecycle still warrant caution: rollback requires compatible files, and recovery behavior under combined relaxed-durability settings remains incompletely verified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
Trust Boundaries and Controls
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
Hardening Proposals
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… into the meta page The B12 census attributes the largest single slice of ZeroDB's per-commit CPU gap vs the LMDB fork (~1.6 µs) to the free-list save: `freelist_save` executes ~2 `put_pil` + ~1 `delete_tree` on the GC tree every commit, each a COW tree write, and dirties one extra page written at C2. With the on-disk format constraint lifted (pre-release, no consumers), the freed list of txn N now rides inside meta N's reserved bytes — written by the same `write_at_page`, covered by the same CRC, atomic with the same meta — so the steady-state save does zero GC-tree ops and the next txn's reclaim is an O(1) pool draw instead of a cursor scan + PIL decode. FORMAT_VERSION 1 -> 2 (v1 files rejected at open, sanctioned pre-release). Invariants GC-29..33 + INV-28; crash safety via the meta CRC + torn-meta fallback; an in-save pool bounds file growth under a parked reader (churn_parity_general guards it). SPEC 02/05/06 updated; ADR-0022 added. Spike per CLAUDE.md rule 7 (format change => smallest change that tests the riskiest assumption). Awaiting direct human ratification of the format change before merge (rule 6). Gate green: test 630/0, miri 0-fail, crash-test-quick all modes, loom 9/0, stress 180s 2/0, fuzz-quick 2.1M runs clean.
Non-blocking items from the adversarial spec-review (no technical blockers were found): - encode_with_annex doc: name both callers (freelist_save, copy::write_raw) and the trust model — the raw-copy path forwards a snapshot annex validated only by open-time count+CRC, re-validated by the copy's own reader before any draw (no soundness hole; GC-33). - SPEC 05 GC-23: document the writer's mid-txn free_page_count granularity (annex = live remainder vs tree = full count prefixes) as a conservative working-state estimate; no consumer reads it mid-write-txn. - DIVERGENCES D-022 (PENDING): free-list placement is tools-observable (empty steady-state GC tree, smaller churn files); heed behaviour unchanged. - crc32c / crc32c_concat share one crc_update inner loop (drift guard, N1). - SPEC 02 §3.2 rule 5: pin that fl_count is bounded against the env's expected psize, not the slot's own page_size (N4). BadAnnexCount doc wording (N2). - ADR status: record the measured win, green gate, and clean review. Gate re-confirmed: fmt/clippy clean, cargo test --workspace 630/0.
Add WRITE_MAP in-place twins of steady_state_annex_only_gc_tree_stays_empty and reader_gate_blocks_annex_draw_then_carry_reclaims (the parked-reader case), following the ADR-0021 M3 parameterized-body convention from nested_fanout.rs/put_reserved_adversarial.rs: an `assert_mode` tripwire on `dirty_in_map_mode()` plus a growth-metric tripwire. The growth metric needed a WRITE_MAP-aware rework: file_size is pinned to map_size from the first commit under WRITE_MAP (the file is set_len'd at map time), so it can never show the extend-vs-reuse distinction the reader-gate test depends on. Added `high_water()`, which falls back to the meta's logical `last_pg` high-water mark under WRITE_MAP — this surfaced and fixed a false "gate leaked" failure in the twin that was purely a test-metric artifact, not an engine bug (confirmed against zerodb-core::env's own WRITE_MAP set_len(map_size) comment). Skipped the optional annex-draw counter in the crash harness (item 2): no counter for annex draws during freelist_save exists today, unlike dirty_in_map_mode (already a test hook) or the fault journal's map_regions (already tracked by the broker) — adding one would mean new public API/ atomics on RwTxn, which is out of scope here. Doc fixes: docs/adr/0022-meta-freelist-annex.md's Read-side paragraph wrongly claimed the annex pool is never consulted inside freelist_save; corrected to match the Write-side paragraph, SPEC 05 GC-30, and rwtxn.rs's AllocMode::GcSave arm (annex_draw is the carried-pool source after save_pool_draw). SPEC 05 GC-31 now scopes the "crash-fallback meta for writer W is B itself" claim to the durable modes, cross-referencing SPEC 06 for the REC-10/REC-11 window and the in-place WRITE_MAP case where an uncommitted/aborted txn's in-map writes can reach disk without a commit step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…2026-10-05) Status Spike → Accepted; open questions 1–2 resolved (format change, full annex cap); D-022 APPROVED; DECISIONS/PROGRESS updated with the re-gate on main after ADR-0021. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
YCSB on Graviton4 NVMe and the x86 bench server, plus Meilisearch's xtask workloads, LMDB / main (8b066a6) / annex. Durable YCSB B +7.8% on NVMe, no-sync +3–7% on x86, write p50 −14% to −25% everywhere; Meilisearch flat (commit span −6% on incremental additions). README gains a current-tree ZeroDB-vs-LMDB table and labels the 2026-09-30 field table as such. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Update the FORMAT_VERSION constant in the §1 table to 2. · 02-pages.md:65
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the
FORMAT_VERSIONconstant in the §1 table to2.The §1 constants table still lists
FORMAT_VERSIONas1. This change bumps the code constant to2and updates the §3.5 worked example to02 00 00 00. As a result, the spec now contradicts itself. The project rule says that the spec wins when code and spec disagree. A reader of §1 would therefore expect format v1. The rule also requires a spec update in the same change.Proposed fix
-| `FORMAT_VERSION` | `1` (`u32`) | On-disk format version. Bumped only on an incompatible change (ADR-0002 §D8). | +| `FORMAT_VERSION` | `2` (`u32`) | On-disk format version. Bumped only on an incompatible change (ADR-0002 §D8). v2 = meta free-list annex (ADR-0022). |As per coding guidelines: "If implementation clarifies behavior, update the spec in the same change. If code and spec disagree, the spec wins until a human amends it."
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Align the verdict with the measured YCSB results.
The tables do not support the stated +2–8% throughput gains or −14% to −25% p50 reductions in every configuration. Across the reported runs, throughput changes range from about −2% to +8%, and p50 reductions range from about 6% to 25%. State these ranges or identify the narrower configurations that support the larger gains.
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-ADR-0022 is a real-case win where commits are frequent or durable on fast
-storage, and neutral for Meilisearch bulk indexing: YCSB +2–8% throughput, write
-p50 −14% to −25% in every configuration on both machines, no regression in any
-Meilisearch workload. It is not a Meilisearch indexing speed-up and should not be
-described as one.
+ADR-0022 changes YCSB throughput by about −2% to +8% across the tested
+configurations, with write p50 improvements of about 6–25%. Meilisearch bulk
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…ught up to date (#91) * docs: sweep stale content after #88/#89/#90 Docs only, no code changes. Checked against main at d155fe6. - PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB: item statuses and the roadmap now match what landed (in-place WRITE_MAP, meta free-list annex, spilling, validation cache, forced inlining) and what was parked (lazy validation, O_DSYNC meta write). Drifted line refs are replaced with function names. The 1.8x commit figure is relabelled as the macOS run; on Linux, durable commits are at parity. - BENCH-MAP: benchmark cross-references updated after the delete_range, cursor and annex changes. - PLAN: Phase 3 status table; the 2.8, 3.1, 3.4 and 3.7 notes updated. - DECISIONS and ADR headers: implementation notes only, no decision changed. 0019's implementation was parked in PR #86. 0021 and 0022 merged as #88 and #89. - DIVERGENCES: D-004 no longer claims DUPSORT was implemented. D-014 and D-022 factual notes fixed. No status or approval changed. - CHANGELOG [Unreleased]: format v2 is a breaking change (v1 files are refused at open, migrate with dump then load), plus in-place WRITE_MAP, the annex and NO_READ_AHEAD. Notes that the v0.1.0 tag was never pushed. - README, COMPATIBILITY, TOOLS, CONSUMER-GATE, CONTRIBUTING, UPSTREAM-BUGS: format v2, the new options, release state, the CI description, mimalloc, and the memory behaviour of load and check. - SPEC: non-normative cross-references only. - ci.yml: header comment only. - PROGRESS: one appended line covering #88, #89, #90 and this sweep. * spec: bring SPEC 00–06 up to date with the engine as it evolved The maintainer authorized amending normative SPEC text to describe the engine as it is now. Only deliberate changes are folded in: accepted ADRs, approved divergences, and changes merged and kept. No code/spec disagreement turned out to be a correctness bug. All 160 rule IDs (TXN/GC/REC/BT/INV) are kept, none renumbered or retired. Each file carries a "Revised 2026-10-05" note. - 02 pages: FORMAT_VERSION 2 and v1 refused at open (ADR-0022), plus the annex offset constant. non_free_pages_size uses the GC-23 definition. The checksum field is reserved and written as 0. DUPSORT layout is parked. - 01 flags: NO_READ_AHEAD landed. WRITE_MAP is now in place (ADR-0021). fdatasync after msync runs on every platform. The 2.8a pins that were pending are adopted as spec text, with DUPSORT itself parked. - 00 API: WRITE_MAP in-place note. The rest of the surface re-verified, with no change needed. - 03 btree: point get through find_exact. The integer fast path is exactly memcmp order. Where dirty bytes live (heap staging, in-place WRITE_MAP, spill/unspill). Cursor-path retention covers deletes only. put_reserved uses a single descent. Allocation order now includes the annex. Same-size overwrite is scoped to inline values: the large-value same-size case was never built, tracked in #6. DUPSORT is marked parked. - 04 txn: snapshot fields include the annex. Frame pool realization note. - 05 gc: annex section marked ratified (PR #89). Drain representation note. - 06 recovery: format v2 at REC-1, v2 CRC offsets at REC-8 and REC-22. REC-12 states the shipped whole-map msync plus fdatasync, a superset of the ranged msync, which stays planned in #45; C3 then C4 then C5 order verified. REC-7 notes the parked O_DSYNC meta write. Also in PERF-GAP: the used-portion COW copy experiment was measured flat and reverted on 2026-10-02. Its record lived only in 279ceba on an unmerged branch. * Prepare the repo for public readers - Root: CLAUDE.md becomes AGENTS.md, rewritten as a public guide for human and AI contributors: project rules, unsafe policy, checks, repo map, style. Agent model names, milestone process and personal ratification notes are gone. PLAN.md, PROGRESS.md and .claude/ (agent definitions, slash commands) are removed from the tree; git history keeps them. /CLAUDE.md and /.claude/ are gitignored so local assistant configuration stays local. - Code comments: internal shorthand replaced with plain words in about 200 files: milestone codes, perf-inventory codes, "Phase N" roadmap labels, divergence IDs, and references to the removed files. Spec rule IDs (TXN-41, GC-16, ...) and ADR numbers are kept; they point to public docs. Every changed .rs line is a comment, except three user-visible strings cleaned the same way: the zerodb-tools usage text, the MDB_NOSUBDIR error, and the compacting-copy comparator error, which also lost a run of stray spaces. - Approval records: names and chat quotes become "maintainer, <date>" in DIVERGENCES, DECISIONS, ADRs, SPEC and code. Decisions and dates kept. - Docs: CONTRIBUTING points to AGENTS.md. References to removed files are rewritten; in historical records (ADRs, bench reports) they are plain text. SECURITY: write-transaction memory is bounded by spilling now, except a single large value. Checks (Rust 1.99, macOS aarch64): cargo fmt --check clean. cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean, and the same for the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu target on the engine crates. cargo test --workspace: 653 passed, 0 failed. cargo doc: the same 37 pre-existing warnings as main, none new. * Cut history, process notes and restatements from comments and docs Comments (about 140 files; comment lines 15,047 → 14,738): removed dated history ("since 2026-07-21", "amended …", "pre-fix"), review and process artifacts (review finding IDs, coverage-pass notes, "do not weaken (AGENTS.md rule 2)" boilerplate), bug-discovery stories (each regression test keeps one line on what it guards), and long verbatim mdb.c / lmdb.h quotes (now one sentence plus the reference). Kept every SAFETY comment and atomic Ordering justification, every invariant and reason a decision was made, LMDB-parity facts, spec rule IDs, ADR numbers and complete public API docs. Comments that contradicted the code are corrected: - heed-zerodb `Database::put_reserved` # Errors: a failing closure returns Io and keeps the entry; it does not return Encoding. - heed-zerodb txn module doc and heed_suite: RwTxn is Send (the writer lock is thread-agnostic, TXN-6); they described an old !Send design. - dirty.rs SPARE_CAP: ZeroDB does spill (TXN-68). meta.rs: the CRC covers [0,172) plus the annex ids. lib.rs and page/mod.rs: page::raw is not the only unsafe module. - Three doc comments were attached to the wrong item and are moved. One dead intra-doc link is removed. The oracle gc_churn band/page size and the multi_db coverage list are fixed, along with a few other stale harness descriptions. Only comments changed in .rs files (checked mechanically; two trailing comments after an unchanged `},`), plus one fix: examples/decode_artifact.rs now splits off the engine-mode byte the way the diff_ops fuzz target does, and prints the mode. It used to decode the mode byte as an op and print a shifted sequence. Docs: - PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB.md goes from 1,160 to 331 lines. It now shows where ZeroDB stands per area, which technique closed each gap, what was tried and dropped, and what remains with issue links. Every number cites its report in benches/results. A lookup table maps the old item codes still cited by ADRs, SPEC and the perf ledger. - BENCH-MAP.md goes from 315 to 270 lines: the rung map is kept, history removed. - DECISIONS.md and DIVERGENCES.md: index rows cut to one short line each. All 22 divergences are kept, with no status or approval changed. - benches/results: nothing deleted; every report is either the latest of its kind or referenced. Checks (Rust 1.99): fmt clean. clippy -D warnings clean on macOS and on the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu engine crates. cargo test --workspace: 653 passed, 0 failed. cargo doc: same 37 pre-existing warnings as main. No broken relative links in any Markdown file. * Address review: unreleased 0.1.0 notes, WRITE_MAP durability row - CHANGELOG [0.1.0]: say plainly that it was never released. Drop the claims that crates were published and binaries attached, drop the tag from the patch snippet, and replace the links to the missing v0.1.0 tag. The `## [0.1.0]` heading stays, since the release workflow matches it. - SPEC 01 Table 1, MDB_WRITEMAP: commit flushes the whole map with msync, and a synchronous flush also fdatasyncs on every platform (REC-12). This row now matches §S7 and the landed-flags table.
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* docs: sweep stale content after #88/#89/#90 Docs only, no code changes. Checked against main at d155fe6. - PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB: item statuses and the roadmap now match what landed (in-place WRITE_MAP, meta free-list annex, spilling, validation cache, forced inlining) and what was parked (lazy validation, O_DSYNC meta write). Drifted line refs are replaced with function names. The 1.8x commit figure is relabelled as the macOS run; on Linux, durable commits are at parity. - BENCH-MAP: benchmark cross-references updated after the delete_range, cursor and annex changes. - PLAN: Phase 3 status table; the 2.8, 3.1, 3.4 and 3.7 notes updated. - DECISIONS and ADR headers: implementation notes only, no decision changed. 0019's implementation was parked in PR #86. 0021 and 0022 merged as #88 and #89. - DIVERGENCES: D-004 no longer claims DUPSORT was implemented. D-014 and D-022 factual notes fixed. No status or approval changed. - CHANGELOG [Unreleased]: format v2 is a breaking change (v1 files are refused at open, migrate with dump then load), plus in-place WRITE_MAP, the annex and NO_READ_AHEAD. Notes that the v0.1.0 tag was never pushed. - README, COMPATIBILITY, TOOLS, CONSUMER-GATE, CONTRIBUTING, UPSTREAM-BUGS: format v2, the new options, release state, the CI description, mimalloc, and the memory behaviour of load and check. - SPEC: non-normative cross-references only. - ci.yml: header comment only. - PROGRESS: one appended line covering #88, #89, #90 and this sweep. * spec: bring SPEC 00–06 up to date with the engine as it evolved The maintainer authorized amending normative SPEC text to describe the engine as it is now. Only deliberate changes are folded in: accepted ADRs, approved divergences, and changes merged and kept. No code/spec disagreement turned out to be a correctness bug. All 160 rule IDs (TXN/GC/REC/BT/INV) are kept, none renumbered or retired. Each file carries a "Revised 2026-10-05" note. - 02 pages: FORMAT_VERSION 2 and v1 refused at open (ADR-0022), plus the annex offset constant. non_free_pages_size uses the GC-23 definition. The checksum field is reserved and written as 0. DUPSORT layout is parked. - 01 flags: NO_READ_AHEAD landed. WRITE_MAP is now in place (ADR-0021). fdatasync after msync runs on every platform. The 2.8a pins that were pending are adopted as spec text, with DUPSORT itself parked. - 00 API: WRITE_MAP in-place note. The rest of the surface re-verified, with no change needed. - 03 btree: point get through find_exact. The integer fast path is exactly memcmp order. Where dirty bytes live (heap staging, in-place WRITE_MAP, spill/unspill). Cursor-path retention covers deletes only. put_reserved uses a single descent. Allocation order now includes the annex. Same-size overwrite is scoped to inline values: the large-value same-size case was never built, tracked in #6. DUPSORT is marked parked. - 04 txn: snapshot fields include the annex. Frame pool realization note. - 05 gc: annex section marked ratified (PR #89). Drain representation note. - 06 recovery: format v2 at REC-1, v2 CRC offsets at REC-8 and REC-22. REC-12 states the shipped whole-map msync plus fdatasync, a superset of the ranged msync, which stays planned in #45; C3 then C4 then C5 order verified. REC-7 notes the parked O_DSYNC meta write. Also in PERF-GAP: the used-portion COW copy experiment was measured flat and reverted on 2026-10-02. Its record lived only in 279ceba on an unmerged branch. * Prepare the repo for public readers - Root: CLAUDE.md becomes AGENTS.md, rewritten as a public guide for human and AI contributors: project rules, unsafe policy, checks, repo map, style. Agent model names, milestone process and personal ratification notes are gone. PLAN.md, PROGRESS.md and .claude/ (agent definitions, slash commands) are removed from the tree; git history keeps them. /CLAUDE.md and /.claude/ are gitignored so local assistant configuration stays local. - Code comments: internal shorthand replaced with plain words in about 200 files: milestone codes, perf-inventory codes, "Phase N" roadmap labels, divergence IDs, and references to the removed files. Spec rule IDs (TXN-41, GC-16, ...) and ADR numbers are kept; they point to public docs. Every changed .rs line is a comment, except three user-visible strings cleaned the same way: the zerodb-tools usage text, the MDB_NOSUBDIR error, and the compacting-copy comparator error, which also lost a run of stray spaces. - Approval records: names and chat quotes become "maintainer, <date>" in DIVERGENCES, DECISIONS, ADRs, SPEC and code. Decisions and dates kept. - Docs: CONTRIBUTING points to AGENTS.md. References to removed files are rewritten; in historical records (ADRs, bench reports) they are plain text. SECURITY: write-transaction memory is bounded by spilling now, except a single large value. Checks (Rust 1.99, macOS aarch64): cargo fmt --check clean. cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean, and the same for the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu target on the engine crates. cargo test --workspace: 653 passed, 0 failed. cargo doc: the same 37 pre-existing warnings as main, none new. * Cut history, process notes and restatements from comments and docs Comments (about 140 files; comment lines 15,047 → 14,738): removed dated history ("since 2026-07-21", "amended …", "pre-fix"), review and process artifacts (review finding IDs, coverage-pass notes, "do not weaken (AGENTS.md rule 2)" boilerplate), bug-discovery stories (each regression test keeps one line on what it guards), and long verbatim mdb.c / lmdb.h quotes (now one sentence plus the reference). Kept every SAFETY comment and atomic Ordering justification, every invariant and reason a decision was made, LMDB-parity facts, spec rule IDs, ADR numbers and complete public API docs. Comments that contradicted the code are corrected: - heed-zerodb `Database::put_reserved` # Errors: a failing closure returns Io and keeps the entry; it does not return Encoding. - heed-zerodb txn module doc and heed_suite: RwTxn is Send (the writer lock is thread-agnostic, TXN-6); they described an old !Send design. - dirty.rs SPARE_CAP: ZeroDB does spill (TXN-68). meta.rs: the CRC covers [0,172) plus the annex ids. lib.rs and page/mod.rs: page::raw is not the only unsafe module. - Three doc comments were attached to the wrong item and are moved. One dead intra-doc link is removed. The oracle gc_churn band/page size and the multi_db coverage list are fixed, along with a few other stale harness descriptions. Only comments changed in .rs files (checked mechanically; two trailing comments after an unchanged `},`), plus one fix: examples/decode_artifact.rs now splits off the engine-mode byte the way the diff_ops fuzz target does, and prints the mode. It used to decode the mode byte as an op and print a shifted sequence. Docs: - PERF-GAP-VS-LMDB.md goes from 1,160 to 331 lines. It now shows where ZeroDB stands per area, which technique closed each gap, what was tried and dropped, and what remains with issue links. Every number cites its report in benches/results. A lookup table maps the old item codes still cited by ADRs, SPEC and the perf ledger. - BENCH-MAP.md goes from 315 to 270 lines: the rung map is kept, history removed. - DECISIONS.md and DIVERGENCES.md: index rows cut to one short line each. All 22 divergences are kept, with no status or approval changed. - benches/results: nothing deleted; every report is either the latest of its kind or referenced. Checks (Rust 1.99): fmt clean. clippy -D warnings clean on macOS and on the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu engine crates. cargo test --workspace: 653 passed, 0 failed. cargo doc: same 37 pre-existing warnings as main. No broken relative links in any Markdown file. * Address review: unreleased 0.1.0 notes, WRITE_MAP durability row - CHANGELOG [0.1.0]: say plainly that it was never released. Drop the claims that crates were published and binaries attached, drop the tag from the patch snippet, and replace the links to the missing v0.1.0 tag. The `## [0.1.0]` heading stays, since the release workflow matches it. - SPEC 01 Table 1, MDB_WRITEMAP: commit flushes the whole map with msync, and a synchronous flush also fdatasyncs on every platform (REC-12). This row now matches §S7 and the landed-flags table. * Release 0.2.0 - Version 0.2.0 for zerodb-core, zerodb-io, zerodb, zerodb-tools and zerodb-oracle, with the exact internal pins updated. Lockfiles refreshed. heed-zerodb and heed-shim stay at 0.22.1, the heed line they mirror. - CHANGELOG [0.2.0] is self-contained, since 0.1.0 was prepared but never released: what ZeroDB is, how to install it, features, performance with sources, verification (including that the consumer test suites last ran 2026-09-09), requirements, and known gaps. The never-released [0.1.0] section is folded in; [Unreleased] is reopened. - README install snippet (crates.io and the v0.2.0 tag) and status, TOOLS install instructions, SECURITY's unsafe inventory (adds the in-place WRITE_MAP path), and a stale "since 0.1.0" in COMPATIBILITY.
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ADR-0022: meta free-list annex — per-commit free-list save into the meta page
Each commit's freed page list now rides inside the meta page's reserved bytes
(the "annex") instead of being written into the GC B-tree. The meta page is
already the one page every commit writes, checksums and makes atomic, so the
steady-state free-list save does zero GC-tree operations, writes one page
fewer per commit, and the next write txn reclaims those pages with an O(1) pool
draw. The GC tree remains the spill path (over-cap freed sets, lists carried
past a parked reader).
FORMAT_VERSION1 → 2.Status: ADR Accepted (Quentin, 2026-10-05) — format change and crash-seed
re-pin ratified. Rebased on main (#88 in-place
WRITE_MAP, #90 MSRV 1.98).Real-case results (three columns: LMDB / main
8b066a6/ this PR)Full tables:
benches/results/2026-10-05-meta-annex-real-case.md.YCSB, Graviton4 NVMe (10 M × 128 B, 60 s, 2 reps):
WRITE_MAPWRITE_MAP¹ LMDB with
MDB_WRITEMAP.YCSB, x86 bench server: no-sync after ÷ before 1.027 / 1.065 / 1.064 /
1.053 (A, A-wm, B, B-wm; every rep above 1.0); durable flat (fsync is a
~1.4 ms SATA RAID flush there).
Meilisearch (
cargo xtask bench, 3 rounds, rotated order, server time):Scope of the claim: a win for frequent or durable commits (YCSB +2–8%,
write p50 −14% to −25% everywhere), neutral for Meilisearch bulk indexing, no
regression anywhere. Not a Meilisearch indexing speed-up.
Commit ladder (x86, 5 rounds, earlier):
commit/batch/n12.04× → 1.60× LMDB(−22%),
n1001.09× → 1.02×,n10kandcommit/sync/*flat.Gate on the combined tree (main + #88 + this PR)
fmt ✅ · clippy
-D warnings✅ ·cargo test --workspace653/0 · miri-p zerodb-core206/0 · loom 9/0 · stress 180 s 3/0 (incl. thein-place
WRITE_MAPwriter) · crash-test-quick ✅ 229 cycles, 0 abandoned, 3,013in-place regions journaled · fuzz-quick clean. Re-checked after the #90 rebase
on Rust 1.99: fmt, clippy, test 653/0.
Combination with in-place
WRITE_MAP(#88)An adversarial spec review of the combined tree found it sound: annex reuse is
the same safety argument as the GC tree it replaces, at the same hop; the annex
is CRC-covered and written with the meta in one piece;
validate_pil_idsrunsbefore any in-place write. Follow-ups applied here:
WRITE_MAPin-place twinsof the steady-state and parked-reader annex tests (with an in-place tripwire),
a stale "Read side" paragraph in the ADR corrected, and GC-31 scoped to the
durable modes.
Notes
11_834_834_180_059_103_290 → 198per thefile's documented protocol (the annex moves the fault cut one hop earlier);
assertions unchanged. Accepted.
WRITE_MAP+NO_META_SYNCmode.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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