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Summary

Named-snapshot deletes (DeleteSnapshots by name and with all=true) and scheduled-snapshot retention now delete catalogued snapshots the way the snapshot reaper deletes artifacts. Before node-manager touches the bytes, they move out of local_path with one atomic rename. GC staging now has a fixed-length name and is never treated as a snapshot.

The gap. #718 made these paths check the row out, delete the bytes through node-manager, then delete the row. After a failed node-manager delete it decided from the disk: a missing local_path committed, and a present one rolled the row back to ready. Node-manager deletes non-subvolume trees, and trees with nested subvolumes, in place and entry by entry (node/mgr/server/src/clone_cleanup.rs remove_at, under a 100,000-entry / 60 s budget, nested subvolumes children first). A delete that failed partway therefore left a partial tree at local_path. That tree counts as present, so the row came back ready and advertised bytes that were partly gone. Startup recovery has the same blind spot. #718 listed this as a known limitation.

The fix reuses the reaper's protocol (snapshot_gc::execute_one). For a snapshot with a row, LocalArtifacts::delete_named_snapshot now:

1. checks the row out (ready → deleting), as before;
2. runs sbx-mgr: never leave a ready artifact row without its bytes #718's path check (PathDiffers), as before;
3. renames local_path to .gc-pending-<local_artifact_id> beside it, and marks the lease vacated;
4. deletes the row;
5. returns Deleted { staging }.

Steps 3 and 4 are the new DeleteLease::commit_through_gc_staging, which execute_one now calls too. They run in an awaited spawn_blocking, as the reaper runs them. That is the only new task, and its caller waits for it.

DeleteSnapshots and retention then release the sandbox's artifact lock and delete the staging through node-manager's DeleteCacheArtifact. That delete is snapshot_gc::delete_gc_staging, factored out of the reaper's delete_cache_artifact_via_node_mgr. Nothing owns the staging once its row is gone. Deleting it under the lock would make the sandbox's suspend publication, rollback, export and backup enqueue wait behind node-manager's node-wide cache-deletion lane, as the reaper already avoids by releasing its guards first.

• A node-manager failure there leaves only unowned staging. The orphan sweep reclaims it on every pass, even with disk-pressure reaping disabled.
• Retention captures only once that staging is gone. It prunes under the publication locks, releases them, deletes the staging, and retakes them to capture only if every staging delete succeeded. Its prune also hands back any unowned staging its listing shows, so staging that an earlier delete failed to remove is retried on every tick, and the tick captures nothing until it is gone (retention.rs:77). While DeleteCacheArtifact keeps failing for a sandbox, the staging holds at most what one prune moved aside and no tier gains a snapshot, as main stopped capture while a byte delete failed.
• A rename that fails with anything but ENOENT leaves the bytes in place and returns the row to ready. A first rollback that fails is retried by Drop. A rename that finds nothing deletes the row.
• A row-delete failure leaves the row deleting, still owning the staging, for startup recovery. No staging is handed back.
• sbx-mgr: never leave a ready artifact row without its bytes #718's disk probe after a failed delete is gone, and so are its "partly deleted tree comes back ready" doc notes.

Staging names have a fixed length. gc_pending_staging_path was <local_path>.gc-pending-<id>, which adds 48 bytes to the snapshot's own name. SnapshotName allows 255 bytes, so a name of 208 bytes or more failed the rename with ENAMETOOLONG, and neither the reaper nor a named delete could remove it. Staging is now <parent>/.gc-pending-<id> (local_artifacts.rs:996) for the reaper, named deletes, retention and runtime-upgrade retirement. Beside a suspend artifact that is <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-<id>, so node-manager's validate_cache_artifact_path now accepts that shape too (node/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs:1329).

Startup recovery still probes the old shape. For a name of 208 bytes or more, that probe fails with ENAMETOOLONG; such a path cannot exist, so it now reads as absent (legacy_staging_exists, local_artifacts.rs:1019). Every other probe error is still treated as unreadable, and the row is deferred. Main's recovery has the same overlength-probe gap: it defers every long-named deleting row on every restart. Before the rename that leaves the bytes under a deleting row; after it, the staging stays owned. This change fixes it too.

Staging is never a snapshot. Node-manager's snapshot listing returns every directory under snapshots/, staging included. Before this change, staging under a snapshot's name was:

• listed by ListSnapshots;
• loaded by Rollback, with no restore lease;
• exported by ExportSnapshot;
• adopted by EnqueueArtifactBackup(snapshot_name) as a new ready row, which the sweep then deleted from under it;
• deleted in place by delete-all and by name;
• counted by retention toward KEEP_*, then pruned by name.

The reaper's own staging always had this exposure. A name of staging's shape is now internal: .gc-pending-<artifact id> as the whole name, or as its suffix in the earlier shape (gc_staging_id, local_artifacts.rs:1011). That is the parse the orphan sweep reclaims by, so the internal names and the names the sweep can delete are one set. A name that only contains the marker, such as run.gc-pending-1 or d-x.gc-pending-note, stays an ordinary snapshot.

• ListSnapshots, delete-all, delete by name, Rollback and backup adoption already call is_internal_snapshot_name, which now includes it (grpc_spaced_process_snapshots.rs:40). ListSnapshots' own directory scan for full snapshots now applies it too (:1034), so an f-….gc-pending-<id> staging is not listed either.
• ExportSnapshot refuses it (grpc_snapshot_transfer.rs:103). This is narrowed to staging, so d-stop-* and d-operation-* exports are unchanged.
• retention_candidate skips it (retention.rs:34), and retention's prune hands unowned staging to its post-lock delete instead (retention.rs:138).

Only ownership-aware cleanup removes staging: the deleter that staged it, the orphan sweep, and retention's retry, which uses the sweep's ownership check (gc_pending_is_unowned, snapshot_gc.rs:767).

Staging's name shape is reserved. No client can give a new snapshot a name of that shape:

• ImportSnapshot refuses a target_name ending in .gc-pending-<artifact id> with InvalidArgument (import_target_name, grpc_snapshot_transfer.rs:10). Other names containing the marker import as before.
• Backup adoption by name refuses it as internal.
• CreateSnapshot names are generated (d-manual-<time>, d-operation-<request id>).

An existing snapshot whose name already has staging's shape becomes internal. Sandbox-manager generates no such name.

Compatibility with staging left by an earlier version, and with rolling back to one:

Direction	What happens	Code
This version, earlier <name>.gc-pending-<id> staging	The sweep's discovery and id parse go through gc_staging_id. snapshot.gc-pending-<id> and snapshots/<name>.gc-pending-<id> sit at the same depths and parse to the same id.	orphans.rs:93, snapshot_gc.rs:771
This version, startup recovery	A deleting row counts as staged if either the new or the old staging path exists.	local_artifacts.rs:788
Earlier version, sweep	It discovers any name containing .gc-pending- (main orphans.rs:93), checking the candidate before deciding whether to descend. <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-<id> is found at depth 2 (main orphans.rs:24, depth < 2), and snapshots/.gc-pending-<id> inside snapshots/. rsplit_once(".gc-pending-") (main snapshot_gc.rs:747) gives an empty prefix and the id, so ownership is checked as usual.	main 146c77f0
Earlier version, startup recovery	It looks only for <local_path>.gc-pending-<id> (main local_artifacts.rs:756). For a row whose bytes were renamed to the short name, it sees neither path, so original_present && !staging_present (:770) is false. An unpinned row is deleted (:778), and its sweep then reclaims the staging. A pinned row is deferred (:773), as main defers today. Named snapshots are never pinned.	main 146c77f0
Earlier node-manager	It accepts <sandbox_id>/snapshots/.gc-pending-<id>, because snapshots followed by any name was allowed. It refuses <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-<id> (main snapshots.rs:1326-1328). That staging is retained and retried by every sweep, with no data loss, until node-manager runs this version.	main 146c77f0

These stay as main has them:

• Refusals: pinned, leased, restoring, deleting, shared path, unreadable row, path mismatch. No rename happens, the bytes are untouched, and the row is as before.
• Snapshots without a row: these have no id to stage under, so they are still deleted in place, under the lock as before. DeleteSnapshots uses DeleteCacheArtifact of local_path, and retention uses DeleteBtrfsSnapshot by name. NotFound still counts as deleted.
• Locks: the same artifact lock (DeleteSnapshots) and artifact publication locks (retention), taken in the same order.
  • DeleteSnapshots now holds its lock in delete_snapshots_locked and deletes staging after it returns.
  • Retention's lock scope moves from process_tick into retention::prune_and_capture. That function takes the locks for the prune, releases them to delete the staging, and takes them again for the capture. The capture reads nothing the prune did: its timestamp, tick, due tier and execution fence are read before the first lock (snapshot_scheduler.rs:415-474), and its artifact id is new (:586). The full checkpoint already takes its own locks after the disk capture (:613).
• Results: DeleteSnapshots keeps its status codes and messages, and retention keeps its skip and fail policy. A failed rename is reported like the failed byte delete it replaces. A staging delete that fails fails retention's tick like a failed byte delete did: nothing is captured, the full checkpoint waits for a later tick, and the scheduler logs "snapshot scheduler tick failed" with "capture skipped until a later tick deletes them".

The one intended result change. Once a catalogued snapshot is renamed and its row deleted, DeleteSnapshots answers OK and lists it as deleted, and retention counts it as pruned, whatever the later staging delete returns. Retention still captures nothing on a tick whose staging delete failed. The same holds when the row delete fails after the rename, which leaves the row deleting for startup recovery. Before, a catalogued snapshot whose bytes were still present after a failed delete answered Internal "delete snapshot failed" and returned to ready. The DeleteSnapshots comment in manager.proto, and its copy in the generated shim file, say this (comment lines only).

Retention's node-manager call. A catalogued candidate's staging is deleted with DeleteCacheArtifact, not DeleteBtrfsSnapshot of <sandbox_id>/snapshots/<name>. Both handlers end in the same delete_cache_artifact_at → artifact_fs::delete → clone_cleanup::remove_at. That function opens the path and first tries a btrfs subvolume delete of that root, so a subvolume root under the staging name is deleted the same way. The Kind check below deletes real btrfs snapshot subvolumes this way.

Permissions. sbx-mgr already renames these trees. The reaper's execute_one renames every ready row it reaps, and its scan has no origin filter, so that includes named and scheduled snapshots at <sandbox_id>/snapshots/<name>. Node-manager creates snapshots/ as space-cache-rw, mode 2770, with no sticky bit (create_btrfs_snapshot_inner), and sbx-mgr is in space-cache-rw (infra/space/identity/node-identities.sh). A same-directory rename needs only write access to that directory, including for a read-only subvolume root.

Supporting changes:

• sandbox_snapshot_dir_in(cache_root, …) is added beside sandbox_snapshot_dir, which now calls it with SANDBOX_CACHE_DIR, so production paths are unchanged.
• DeleteSnapshots derives paths from SandboxManagerService::cache_root(), retention takes a cache root, and the orphan sweep takes its root as a parameter. With these, tests rename only tempdir bytes and never a /space path.
• DeleteSnapshots moved into grpc_spaced_process_snapshots/named_delete.rs, and that file's cap in architecture-baseline.toml is lowered 1620 → 1506. Its "delete-all retains a snapshot it cannot delete" warning keeps its log target through a pinned LOG_TARGET.
• The staging-delete warning now reads "GC staging: DeleteCacheArtifact RPC failed; …", with a deleter field (snapshot reaper, DeleteSnapshots or retention). It used to say "snapshot reaper:", and both it and the connect-failure warning said the staging is retried "at next sbx-mgr start". They now say the orphan sweep retries it.
• The Kind reaper scenario listed snapshots/ with ls -1, which hides .gc-pending-<id>. It now uses ls -1A, and its residue check (fixtures.snapshot_reap_residue) also counts any .gc-pending- entry.

Validation

On head f3df572, which adds the review fixes to af35bd6:

Check	Result
bash ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh fmt	pass
bash ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh clippy: workspace, plus sbx-mgr production clippy for all 3 feature sets	pass
cargo arch with the merge base's architecture-baseline.toml, ARCHITECTURE.toml and renames, as CI runs it	0 required, 107 advisory. On touched files, only node-manager snapshots.rs (see risk)
nextest ×2: --locked --all-targets --all-features --run-ignored all --ignore-default-filter, SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1, over sbx-mgr, sbx-mgr-store, db-migrate, db-migrator, db-test-fixtures, common-core and node-mgr; not group(privileged) as an ordinary user, with Postgres and Redis from ci/scripts/ci-test-services.sh	2795 passed each time, none failed or retried. The 33 not run are the privileged group
The same packages, group(privileged) as root in a --privileged container with Docker, under ci/scripts/with-nocow-test-filesystem.sh as CI runs it, ×2	33 passed each time
pytest space_smoke/tests/test_snapshot_reaper_scenario.py	8 passed
Mutation proof	each of the 14 mutations fails at least one test (table below)
A copy rebased onto main 5e1a2a6 (not pushed)	no conflicts; fmt, clippy pass; nextest ×2 2902 passed each time; privileged group once, 37 passed; cargo arch 0 required, 110 advisory

The proto is unchanged since e2eb64f, where run-shim-checks.sh passed.

Tests (host-safe: in-memory SQLite, tempdir bytes, a fake node-manager or a plain future; every fake or closure that deletes asserts that its path is inside the test's tempdir):

Test	Covers
local_artifacts::tests::named_delete_moves_the_bytes_aside_before_deleting_the_row	The helper's table. It observes where the bytes end up, whether the in-place delete ran, the staging handed back, and the row state. Refusals and a path mismatch: no rename, bytes at local_path, row as before. Deletable: bytes in .gc-pending-<id>, staging handed back, row gone. Rename failure (a file holds the staging name, so ENOTDIR, root included): BytesNotDeleted, row ready, with a failed first rollback retried by Drop. Rename ENOENT: Deleted, row gone. Row-delete failure: bytes in staging, row deleting, nothing handed back. Snapshots without a row: in-place delete, NotFound counts as deleted
local_artifacts::tests::named_delete_stages_names_of_every_length	207-, 208- and 255-byte names: each moves aside and its row is deleted
snapshot_gc::tests::reaper_evicts_artifacts_whose_names_are_long	the same lengths through the reaper's execute_one
local_artifacts::tests::recover_resolves_deleting_rows_with_long_names	207-, 208- and 255-byte names. A deleting row with its bytes in place comes back ready. After a rename whose row commit failed (through delete_named_snapshot), the row is deleted and its staging is unowned for the sweep. Nothing is deferred
grpc_snapshot_transfer::tests::import_refuses_the_reserved_staging_marker	ImportSnapshot's target_name ending in .gc-pending-<artifact id> is InvalidArgument; d-run.gc-pending-1, d-user.gc-pending-note and other names with the marker import, and generated names are unchanged
local_artifacts::tests::recover_recognizes_staging_in_either_shape	startup recovery with the original path and the new or the old staging present: an unpinned row finishes, a pinned one is deferred, neither comes back ready. The existing recover_finishes_delete_when_staging_dir_present and recover_pinned_deletion_requires_unambiguous_original_bytes keep the old shape
snapshot_gc::tests::orphan_sweep_reclaims_staging_in_either_shape	the real sweep_orphans over a tempdir: <sbx>/.gc-pending-<id>, <sbx>/snapshot.gc-pending-<id>, snapshots/.gc-pending-<id> and snapshots/<name>.gc-pending-<id> deleted, staging with a row kept, and snapshots/run.gc-pending-1 kept as a snapshot
snapshot_gc::tests::named_delete_failing_partway_leaves_staging_for_the_orphan_sweep	Partial delete: a named delete hands back the staging. The caller's real delete_gc_staging reaches a fake node-manager that removes two of three files and fails. Row gone, local_path absent, partial tree in staging. Then the sweep deletes it
snapshot_scheduler::tests::retention_prune_skips_pinned_and_leased_snapshot_artifacts	Retention's skip and fail policy through prune_and_capture. Adds: the staging delete runs with the artifact lock free; when it succeeds, the capture runs with the lock taken again; when the partial-delete fake fails it, the snapshot is still pruned and the tick fails with "capture skipped", capturing nothing
snapshot_scheduler::tests::retention_captures_only_once_leftover_staging_is_deleted	The bound: unowned .gc-pending-<id> staging left under snapshots/, with no row and so nothing to prune. Two ticks whose staging delete fails retry it with the lock free and capture nothing; the third deletes it and captures with the lock held. Staging a row still owns is never deleted and does not hold up the capture
service::grpc_spaced_process_snapshots::tests::delete_snapshots_answers_each_named_delete_outcome	DeleteSnapshots' answers by name and all=true. Adds: a failed staging delete still answers OK; the staging delete runs with the artifact lock free, while a snapshot without a row is deleted in place with it held
snapshot_inventory_omits_gc_staging, snapshot_rpcs_refuse_gc_staging, backup_policy_tests::artifact_backup_refuses_gc_staging, retention_ignores_gc_staging, internal_snapshot_name_tests	one per consumer, each with both staging shapes. ListSnapshots omits staging, including an f-….gc-pending-<id> found only by its full-snapshot directory scan. DeleteSnapshots by name, Rollback and ExportSnapshot refuse it with FailedPrecondition, and delete-all passes over it, with no node-manager delete. Backup adoption refuses it with no row adopted and no job. Retention neither counts nor prunes it. run.gc-pending-1 and d-x.gc-pending-note stay ordinary: listed, deleted by name and by delete-all, and d-1m-….gc-pending-note is retained and pruned by tier
snapshot_gc::tests::sweep_discovers_gc_pending_orphans_and_skips_unrelated	discovery finds staging with an artifact id and passes over run.gc-pending-1
node-mgr accepts_paths_strictly_inside_the_cache_root	the validator accepts <id>/.gc-pending-<id>, <id>/snapshots/.gc-pending-<id> and the old shapes, and still refuses <id>/instance and <id>/gc-pending-<id>
space_smoke/tests/test_snapshot_reaper_scenario.py::SnapshotReapResidue	the Kind scenario's residue check counts staging in both shapes

Mutation proof: each mutation applied alone (R1–R4 and M2 on e2eb64f, R5 on af35bd6, M1a–M1d and M4 on this head), the sbx-mgr tests for snapshot_gc::, local_artifacts::, snapshot_scheduler::, grpc_spaced_process_snapshots:: the backup-policy and the grpc_snapshot_transfer:: tests run, and the mutation reverted.

#	Mutation	Tests that fail
R1	The old long staging name, <local_path>.gc-pending-<id>	the long-name tests (named delete and reaper), and 7 others that spell out the staging path
R2a	Staging dropped from is_internal_snapshot_name	snapshot_inventory_omits_gc_staging, snapshot_rpcs_refuse_gc_staging, artifact_backup_refuses_gc_staging, operation_snapshots_are_internal
R2b	ExportSnapshot's staging refusal removed	snapshot_rpcs_refuse_gc_staging
R2c	Retention's staging skip removed	retention_ignores_gc_staging
R3a	DeleteSnapshots deletes staging under the artifact lock	delete_snapshots_answers_each_named_delete_outcome
R3b	Retention deletes staging under the publication locks	retention_prune_skips_pinned_and_leased_snapshot_artifacts
R4	Recovery checks only the new staging shape	recover_recognizes_staging_in_either_shape, recover_pinned_deletion_requires_unambiguous_original_bytes
R5	The strict legacy probe: ENAMETOOLONG reads as unreadable again	recover_resolves_deleting_rows_with_long_names (208 bytes, renamed=false: 1 deferred, expected 0)
M2 (round 0)	Rename after the row delete, in commit_through_gc_staging	the helper table (RenameFails), row_commit_failure_after_the_rename_is_finished_by_startup_recovery
M1a	Retention ignores a failed staging delete and captures	retention_prune_skips_pinned_and_leased_snapshot_artifacts (FailsPartway), retention_captures_only_once_leftover_staging_is_deleted
M1b	Retention's prune no longer hands back unowned staging it lists	retention_captures_only_once_leftover_staging_is_deleted
M1c	The capture runs without retaking the locks	both retention tests
M1d	One lock hold across prune, staging delete and capture	both retention tests
M4	is_gc_staging_name back to name.contains(".gc-pending-")	import_refuses_the_reserved_staging_marker, operation_snapshots_are_internal, snapshot_inventory_omits_gc_staging, snapshot_rpcs_refuse_gc_staging, sweep_discovers_gc_pending_orphans_and_skips_unrelated, retention_ignores_gc_staging

Kind, on a fresh cluster at f3df572 (infra/space/kind/scripts/up.sh, SPACE_KIND_TELEMETRY_MODE=otel):

Step	Result
Deployed images	image-provenance: every SPACE container at f3df572cf80f, 68 of them space-worker (sandbox-manager and node-manager)
Deployed sbx-mgr binary	the same sha256 on both worker sandbox-manager pods. It contains this head's strings ("capture skipped until a later tick deletes them", "a name ending in", "GC staging: DeleteCacheArtifact RPC failed") and not the old "snapshot reaper: DeleteCacheArtifact RPC failed"
Tilt quiet	53 resources, none building, pending or in error
smoke-kind-e2e.sh (BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT=1800, DATA_PLANE_URL)	pass
smoke-kind-typed.sh all with CI's env (SKIP_BOOTSTRAP=1, admin token file, SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_COLD_RECEIPTS created 0700, SPACE_M1_GENERATOR_MIRROR), unsharded	ECW pass 85 passed, native pass 31 passed, 0 warned, failed or inconclusive. This includes local.snapshot_reaper_reclaims_backed_fork_snapshot
On the node, retention (scheduled snapshots enabled through the admin API for 9 minutes)	sampled each minute: d-1m 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6 and one d-5m. 9 d-1m-* captured, 3 pruned, 6 left (KEEP_D_1M + the new capture). .gc-pending- entries under the sandbox's snapshots/ (ls -A): 0 at every sample. No "DeleteCacheArtifact RPC failed" and no failed scheduler tick logged
The worker, afterwards	find /space/cache/firecracker/sandboxes -maxdepth 3 -name '*.gc-pending-*': none
Teardown	the sandbox deleted, then infra/space/kind/scripts/teardown.sh: cluster deleted, Tilt stopped

The earlier Kind run at e2eb64f also deleted catalogued and 208- and 255-byte snapshots by name and with all=true on the node, leaving no staging. This commit leaves DeleteSnapshots' code paths as they were.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. A failed node-manager delete partway through a non-subvolume tree, or one with nested subvolumes, left a ready row over a partial snapshot, which a later rollback or restore could load. Staging could be rolled back to, exported, adopted for backup, or counted by retention. A 208–255-byte snapshot name could not be deleted at all. Each staging case needs a failed staging delete first.

Risk:

• Catalogued named deletes and retention prunes now use DeleteCacheArtifact, which takes a slot in node-manager's bounded cache-artifact deletion lane, outside the sandbox's locks.
• A sandbox whose staging deletes keep failing gets no scheduled snapshots until one succeeds, as on main while a byte delete kept failing. Retention also retries any unowned staging under the sandbox's snapshots/, whoever left it, so a failed DeleteSnapshots or reaper staging delete holds up that sandbox's scheduled capture too. A transient failure costs one tick, because retention retries on the next one.
• Suspend-artifact staging moved from <sandbox_id>/snapshot.gc-pending-<id> to <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-<id>, which an older node-manager refuses to delete.
• node/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs gains one code line on a file already over its cap on main (1271 → 1272). archcheck reports this as advisory.

Rollout

Roll node-manager before, or together with, sandbox-manager. On a node where sandbox-manager runs this version and node-manager does not yet, staging under <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-<id> is refused and retained. Nothing is lost, and it heals once node-manager rolls, but evictions of suspend artifacts there free no disk until then. Retention's capture does not depend on the order: its staging sits under <sandbox_id>/snapshots/, which an earlier node-manager already deletes.

Rollback: revert this commit, and keep the newer node-manager until short-form staging has drained (no <sandbox_id>/.gc-pending-* left). The compatibility table describes how the earlier sandbox-manager handles staging left by this one.

Not covered

• An earlier version's ListSnapshots and delete-all still treat <sandbox_id>/snapshots/.gc-pending-<id> as a snapshot, as they treat their own staging today. Its retention does not: the tier-prefix matcher in retention_candidate skips a name that starts with .gc-pending-.
• Pre-existing gap, not fixed here: sandbox-manager's .suspend-gc-pending-, .suspend-publish- and .suspend-retired- entries under snapshots/ are listed by ListSnapshots, deleted in place by delete-all, and not refused by Rollback. Follow-up: treat leading-. names as internal.
• sbx-mgr: never leave a ready artifact row without its bytes #718's other limitation is unchanged: a row left deleting by a failed row commit still matches the named lookup and counts toward count_artifacts_at_path until a restart.
• Retention's skipped capture is proven with a fake node-manager. The Kind run had no failing DeleteCacheArtifact, so it shows the passing path only.
• Node-manager's real partial-delete behaviour is not reproduced. It would need a budget-exhausting tree or a fault in remove_at. The tests' fake removes part of the tree and fails, which is the state that behaviour leaves.
• Catalogued snapshots with names of 208 bytes or more are reachable through ImportSnapshot's target_name and backup adoption by name. The Kind check deleted such names as uncatalogued btrfs snapshots (in place, no staging). The catalogued long-name path, delete and startup recovery, is proven by the 207/208/255-byte unit tests on real tempdir renames, which hit the same 255-byte NAME_MAX.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, the tests and this description.

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Walkthrough

Catalogued snapshot deletion now renames bytes to a fixed sibling GC-staging path before deleting the catalog row. The deletion RPC, startup recovery, orphan sweeps, and scheduled retention handle current and legacy staging names. Snapshot inventory and transfer operations identify staging artifacts, while cache-path validation accepts supported staging paths. Smoke tests include hidden staging entries when checking snapshot cleanup.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1222: Removes the file-size rule and baseline that this change updates for grpc_spaced_process_snapshots.rs.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 25729

Snapshot deletion and scheduled retention now rename snapshot bytes aside before removing the catalog row, and scheduled captures wait for that cleanup. The new paths are well tested. Because this changes how snapshots are deleted and cleaned up, and an older node-manager may reject some new staging paths, upgrade node-manager before or together with sandbox-manager and confirm the cleanup paths in a real rollout before merging.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 25729

The change protects snapshots from partial deletion, but a failed metadata update can leave snapshot data awaiting restart while scheduled captures continue. Repeated failures could increase pressure on shared host storage.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Failure to delete a catalog row after staging bypasses retention backpressure. The operation returns Deleted without handing staging to cleanup; subsequent retention and orphan sweeps preserve the still-owned directory while capture may continue. Repeated failures can accumulate retained snapshot data until restart recovery, weakening failure containment for the shared host cache. Unlike the new flow, the base named-delete path removed the bytes before committing the row deletion.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The sensitive sink remains privileged host-cache deletion. DeleteCacheArtifact accepts only root, local administrator or sandbox-manager principals; the new path allowance does not itself grant another principal access to that operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The changed validator retains cache-root, path-component and canonical sandbox-identity checks. Actual deletion traverses parent directories without following symlinks and performs descriptor-relative removal, preserving containment beyond lexical validation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Orphan cleanup deletes staging only after its artifact row and sandbox pin no longer own its identity. This protects live ownership, but also prevents background cleanup from reclaiming the commit-failed state identified in the retention concern.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Represent staged-but-uncommitted deletion separately from completed deletion so retention can stop further capture or initiate ownership-safe reconciliation without deleting bytes that remain catalog-owned.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title does not meet the configured requirements. It starts with the bracketed tag "[cr-test]" rather than the area prefix. The area prefix "sbx-mgr:" is present but follows the tag. The summary af…	Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title begins with the area prefix. For example: "sbx-mgr: delete named snapshots and retention candidates through GC's staging rename". The summary already meets the lowercase and no-period rules, so no oth…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Follows The Pr Template		The description contains all required sections with real content: ## Summary explains the merge behavior; ## Validation lists commands and results; ## Severity and risk gives severity and risk; …
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The PR fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section names regression tests such as named_delete_moves_the_bytes_aside_before_deleting_the_row, `named_delete_stages_names_of_eve…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		No weakened safeguard was introduced. The diff adds no allow/expect, skip/xfail, CI bypass, lint change, or test exclusion. The existing architecture-baseline entry is lowered from 1620 to 1506; the r…
Public-Safe Content		No failure condition found. The diff contains no credentials, private URLs, ARNs, personal workstation paths, or private tracker links. The only token and endpoints are clearly fake test fixtures (`ch…

Full details: Description Follows The Pr Template

Explanation

The description contains all required sections with real content: ## Summary explains the merge behavior; ## Validation lists commands and results; ## Severity and risk gives severity and risk; and AI assistance: identifies Claude Code and the drafted content.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The PR fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section names regression tests such as named_delete_moves_the_bytes_aside_before_deleting_the_row, named_delete_stages_names_of_every_length, and retention_captures_only_once_leftover_staging_is_deleted. It states that each of 14 mutations fails at least one listed test, while the reported test runs pass with the fix.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

No weakened safeguard was introduced. The diff adds no allow/expect, skip/xfail, CI bypass, lint change, or test exclusion. The existing architecture-baseline entry is lowered from 1620 to 1506; the repository guard permits lowered caps and forbids raised caps. The removed named-delete test is replaced in the same diff by named_delete_moves_the_bytes_aside_before_deleting_the_row, which retains the row, callback, and outcome checks and adds staging-byte assertions. The diff also adds coverage for long names, recovery, orphan cleanup, retention, and staging refusal.

Full details: Public-Safe Content

Explanation

No failure condition found. The diff contains no credentials, private URLs, ARNs, personal workstation paths, or private tracker links. The only token and endpoints are clearly fake test fixtures (characterization-token and loopback addresses). The description reports test-environment results, not production logs or measurements.

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title does not meet the configured requirements. It starts with the bracketed tag "[cr-test]" rather than the area prefix. The area prefix "sbx-mgr:" is present but follows the tag. The summary after the colon starts with a lowercase word, "delete", and has no trailing period or ticket ID. The title is related to the changeset. It describes staging named snapshot and retention-candidate deletion through GC's rename. The changes cover that behavior in sbx-mgr, the node-manager, and the proto, so the title is accurate about the main change.

Resolution

Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title begins with the area prefix. For example: "sbx-mgr: delete named snapshots and retention candidates through GC's staging rename". The summary already meets the lowercase and no-period rules, so no other change is needed.

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Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title begins with the area prefix. For
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Files ignored due to path filters: 1

• shim/proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager_grpc.pb.go is excluded by !**/*.pb.go, !**/*.pb.go

Files selected for processing: 24

• architecture-baseline.toml
• crates/libs/common/core/src/host/linux.rs
• crates/libs/common/core/src/runtime_contract_tests.rs
• crates/libs/node/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs
• crates/libs/node/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots/tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/local_artifacts.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/local_artifacts/tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/backup_policy_tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_snapshot_transfer.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_snapshot_transfer/tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_spaced_process_snapshots.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_spaced_process_snapshots/internal_snapshot_name_tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_spaced_process_snapshots/named_delete.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_spaced_process_snapshots/tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_gc.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_gc/orphans.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_gc/tests.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_scheduler.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_scheduler/retention.rs
• crates/libs/sbx/mgr/server/src/snapshot_scheduler/tests.rs
• proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.proto
• space_smoke/adapters.py
• space_smoke/fixtures.py
• space_smoke/tests/test_snapshot_reaper_scenario.py

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