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Once the data plane starts draining, it refuses a new Native files request with the Native service_unavailable envelope: 503, retryable: true, the drain's Retry-After: 1, and on HTTP/1 Connection: close. A draining replica already refuses new streams the same way.

  • Before anything is spent: the refusal comes first, before the API is asked or the body is read.
  • Requests already taken keep running: they can still wake their sandbox and transfer their body until the drain deadline (--shutdown-grace-secs).

The Kind data-plane chart gains nativeFiles (off by default; the Kind PR turns it on). With it on, the chart refuses a shutdownGraceSeconds shorter than the three steps of a files request the replica took: nativeFiles.uploadSeconds (25 by default) before the wake, up to 135 s for the wake, and nativeFiles.transferSeconds (15 by default) after it. A shorter deadline would cut such a request.

  • Before the wake: authorization, Native upload admission, and reading the whole body, which a write sends before its sandbox is asked. The 25 s default is the largest write body (WRITE_FILE_BODY_LIMIT_BYTES, about 22 MiB for 16 MiB of data) at 1 MiB/s, a slow uplink, which takes 22 s, plus the admission's 2 s wait and the authorization's round trip. No body timeout is added: a slower upload still runs, and only a drain cuts it.
  • The wake: 135 s is space-api's blocking wait budget, NODE_RPC_BLOCKING_BUDGET.
  • Defaults: the chart's shutdownGraceSeconds rises from 150 to 175 s, and terminationGracePeriodSeconds from 180 to 205 s, so it renders with native files on. The Kind README says so.

Validation

At this head (2e4a99a0), on #1374 (b3ec8f76, on main). Next to the rebase, which moved crate paths only, this revision adds nativeFiles.uploadSeconds and the three-step drain check, and raises the two defaults.

  • Python: ci/scripts/run-python-tests.sh (all Python tests, chart tests and space_smoke included, with Postgres): 1971 passed, 1 skipped (needs e2fsprogs).
  • Rust: at data-plane: refuse Native files requests while draining #1375's head (2e4a99a0) cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked passes, and pplx-space-data-plane-server 417 and pplx-space-data-plane-svc 9 pass with Postgres and Redis required, each well inside ci/test-duration-budget.toml (ci/scripts/check-test-durations.py: none over 2 s; this stack's slowest is 0.49 s). On the same Rust one base earlier (before data-plane: serve the Native file mutations other than writes #1373 squash-merged and before data-plane: serve Native files:write and files:write_batch #1374's test split): fmt, the env-contract, error-policy and three source guards, clippy -D warnings on the data-plane crates, archcheck against data-plane: serve Native files:write and files:write_batch #1374 (no findings), and pplx-space-api (--config 'profile.test.package.pplx-space-api.opt-level=0' --all-features) 2522 passed, 1 skipped.
  • Kind, the full stack: bash infra/space/kind/scripts/up.sh with the worktree at 3b5f3999, smoke: cover Native files served by the data plane #1378's previous head, which contains this PR. Its code is this stack's except the Rust tests data-plane: serve Native files:write and files:write_batch #1374 split for the test-duration budget (b3ec8f76), which no image builds. Every SPACE container runs the latest build of its image (image provenance check). The images were built at 3b5f3999, 67cbaf12 or 74230f62, whose image inputs are the same (they differ only in space_smoke/). The data plane ran with --shutdown-grace-secs 175, a 205 s termination grace, SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_UPLOAD_ADMISSION=true and 128 MiB Native byte budgets. The five data-plane scenarios each pass by name (file_operations_match_on_the_data_plane 4 s, file_idempotency_across_origins 4 s, file_op_wakes_idle_suspended_sandbox 72 s, file_write_size_boundary_on_the_data_plane 5 s, file_upload_admission_429 85 s, which put the standing admission env back exactly). scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh native with SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE set: SUITE: 47 passed, 0 warned, 0 failed, 0 inconclusive or infrastructure errors, 11 ignored by design (the Windows and dedicated-node scenarios main now carries among them).

Each new or changed test was mutation-checked: I applied the change, saw the test fail, and reverted.

Test What it proves Mutation that makes it fail
a_draining_replica_refuses_new_files_requests_with_the_native_503 stat and write on a draining replica answer the Native 503: service_unavailable, retryable, with the request id, Retry-After: 1 and Connection: close. The API is never asked, and the body is never read drop the drain check; drop the draining marks
a_files_request_taken_before_the_drain_finishes A write that was reading its body when the drain started still reaches the sandbox and answers 200 also refuse at preparation while draining
test_kind_data_plane_native_files.py (5 cases) With native files on, the chart renders the 175 s default, and a 205 s grace with 40 s of upload and 30 s of transfer. It refuses 174 s, 26 + 135 + 15 s and 25 + 135 + 16 s. Without native files, a 60 s grace renders leave uploadSeconds out of the sum (the three refusals fail to refuse); the previous 150/180 s defaults (the default render fails)

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply (new, off by default).

Risk:

  • With native files off: the Kind chart's drain deadline is now 175 s, not 150 s, and its termination grace 205 s. A replica still exits as soon as its streams end, so only a stream left open that long is held longer.
  • With serve: a draining replica sends files clients elsewhere, as it does for streams.
  • Rollback: revert this PR.

Rollout

A deployment that turns native files on should size its shutdown grace, and the termination grace period above it, to cover a request's upload at its clients' slowest expected rate, the 135 s wake wait and its largest transfer. The same applies to its load balancer's deregistration delay.

Stack

This is PR 9 of 12 and is based on data-plane-native-files-write (#1374). Merge order:

  1. native-files: share the file-request fingerprints and guest key #1362
  2. native-files: share Native file request handling #1363
  3. public-api-http: make Native error rendering usable outside space-api #1364
  4. api: serve native file access RPCs on the activation listener #1365
  5. auth: let the data-plane identity call the native file access RPCs #1371
  6. data-plane: serve Native files:stat, files:list and files:read #1372
  7. data-plane: serve the Native file mutations other than writes #1373
  8. data-plane: serve Native files:write and files:write_batch #1374
  9. this PR
  10. kind-native-files-data-plane (kind: serve Native files from the data plane #1377)
  11. smoke-native-files-data-plane (smoke: cover Native files served by the data plane #1378)
  12. docs-native-files-data-plane (docs: describe Native files served by the data plane #1379)

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  • Real-cluster chart: infra/space/cluster inherits the default (off). A deployment chart outside this repository needs its own check.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, and this description; the author reviewed them.

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Checked the drain refusal: it runs before authorize/body read, reuses the stream drain's Retry-After and HTTP/1 Connection: close marking, and only gates new requests so in-flight ones still finish under the existing serve_and_drain deadline; the chart guard is off by default. Non-blocking: the 135 + transferSeconds floor leaves out the data plane's own authorize RPC (up to 15 s) and the API's 15 s response margin inside PREPARE_TIMEOUT, so a slow request taken right before SIGTERM could still go past 150 s. Kind-only, fine as-is.

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When the drain signal is cancelled, Native file request authorization returns a retryable 503 before reading the request body or calling the worker. Requests already authorized can complete. The local chart adds Native files settings and validates that enabled configurations provide shutdown grace for the configured upload time, a 135-second wait, and transfer time.

Possibly related PRs

  • perplexityai/SPACE#1374: Adds Native files:write and files:write_batch handlers that use the authorization path changed here.
  • perplexityai/SPACE#1373: Adds Native file mutation handlers that use the same FileRequest authorization path.
  • perplexityai/SPACE#1377: Changes the local Kind deployment configuration where this PR adds the Native files shutdown-grace validation.

Unblocks: 3 PRs

Merge Risk: High · previous review 390a7

Resolve the Native files opt-in and drain-budget gaps before merging, and review the new retryable 503 behavior.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 390a7

The change rejects new work during shutdown without granting additional access, while preserving the existing checks for accepted requests. Remaining uncertainty concerns deployment configuration and requests that exceed the assumed upload or transfer durations, not a demonstrated authorization bypass.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed admission behavior applies to Native files requests reaching a draining data-plane replica. The longer chart deadline also affects that replica's existing stream drain. The inspected changes do not establish expanded tenant reach or new cross-service privileges.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — For requests not refused by the drain check, the lifecycle API remains authoritative for organization and sandbox ownership and sandbox preparation. The data plane still obtains authorization and a prepared grant rather than deriving authority from caller-supplied body data.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The chart's Native files settings validate sizing but are not emitted as runtime feature or duration controls. Runtime enablement remains the separate SPACE_DATA_PLANE_NATIVE_FILES setting, defaulting off. Consequently, the new chart gate does not prove enforcement for externally configured deployments.
  • inferred — The sizing formula is not a completion guarantee: upload duration is not bounded by uploadSeconds, and admitted Native files handlers do not consume the stream cancellation token. The existing drain eventually returns after its deadline and five-second cancellation grace, leaving process exit as the outer cutoff. This limitation predates the PR; the larger defaults do not demonstrate worsened interruption or retry exposure.
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Once the data plane starts draining, a new Native files request gets the
Native service_unavailable envelope (503, retryable) with the drain's
Retry-After: 1 and, on HTTP/1, Connection: close. Nothing is asked of
the API and nothing is read. A request already taken keeps running: it
can still wake its sandbox and transfer its body until the drain
deadline.

The Kind data-plane chart gains nativeFiles (off by default). When it
is on, the chart refuses to render a shutdownGraceSeconds under the
three steps of a files request the replica took, so the drain deadline
does not cut it: nativeFiles.uploadSeconds (25) before the wake, the
135 s an API wake may take, and nativeFiles.transferSeconds (15) after
it. 25 s is the largest write body, about 22 MiB, at 1 MiB/s, plus the
Native admission's 2 s wait and the authorization round trip; no body
timeout is added. The chart's shutdownGraceSeconds default rises from
150 to 175 s and terminationGracePeriodSeconds from 180 to 205 s, so it
renders with native files on.
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