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Adds the types, wire fields and privileged-side plumbing that let a node keep one template build per execution environment, outside template-manager's own storage. Template-manager still keeps every build in the single legacy layout, nothing in this PR sends a partitioned build to node-manager, and the callers that will read or write a partitioned build switch in part 6, together with the storage that holds one. The few changes a node can observe before then are listed under "Severity and risk"; none of them changes a result.
Terms
Twin: a second build of the same rootfs digest, bound to a different execution environment than its sibling.
Cache partition (TemplateCachePartition): where a node keeps a template build. Legacy holds unbound builds and builds bound to the Linux/x86-64 initial environment (E0), in {name}/{content_hash}. Any other environment gets Environment(reference), in {name}/{content_hash}@{reference}.
Codec request: a node-manager btrfs-send call that names a sandbox's parent template build: BtrfsEncodeRootfsSend (suspend), BtrfsEncodeSnapshotRootfsSend (operation snapshot) and BtrfsReceiveInstance (restore).
Stack
The stack lets one node cache twins: each needs its own build directory, catalog row, base snapshots and tag pins, which template-manager keys by (name, content_hash) today. Each part builds, passes its tests and is safe to deploy on its own. Parts 1 to 4 are merged, and this PR targets main.
The migration, and template-manager keyed by (name, content_hash, cache partition).
The problem
A content hash names rootfs bytes, not an environment, so a rootfs bound to two environments needs two cache entries with their own manifest, base snapshots and btrfs subvolume. Part 6 changes template-manager's catalog to key builds by partition. Every other component that names a build on disk also has to agree on where a partitioned build lives: node-manager's privileged btrfs RPCs, which compute the directory and the subvolume's received_uuid; sandbox-manager, which names the parent build in codec requests and publishes base snapshots; build-manager, which publishes from the registered build's directory; and node-ctl, which publishes the node's templates to the cluster inventory. Landing all of that with the migration makes part 6 much larger. In particular, node-manager has to understand a partitioned build before any template-manager or sandbox-manager sends one, and the shared types and wire fields have to exist before either side can use them.
How this fixes it
TemplateCachePartition (common core) selects a build's partition from its environment and the initial one, and names its build directory, key and display form. paths::template_build_dir and paths::template_snapshot_dir take a partition; paths::cached_template_partitions_in lists a digest's partitions on disk and returns a listing error rather than an empty list. TemplateManifest::environment and TemplateMetadata::environment read a document's binding. Part 6's template-manager is the caller of the listing, key and document helpers.
The execution catalog exposes initial_environment_reference(), computed once, and template_cache_partition(environment). The reference is infallible: it panics when the compiled pins can't describe E0, a broken build, rather than return None and silently move every E0 build out of the legacy partition. A test pins E0's reference and that E0 and unbound builds map to Legacy. Sandbox-manager's own per-architecture helper now returns this reference for x86-64 (and None for aarch64, which has no initial environment), so one function decides which environment is the legacy one.
Proto, all additive.TemplateRef.environment is a lookup preference in requests and the resolved build's binding in responses. EnvironmentTemplateBuild names a partitioned build. Template subvolume create, finalize and delete carry it instead of content_hash, so a node-manager that predates it rejects the request rather than acting on the legacy build. The three codec requests carry it beside content_hash, so an older node-manager resolves the legacy build as before.
Node-manager validates both forms at the privilege boundary in TemplateBuildTarget. environment_build_partition parses every EnvironmentTemplateBuild and derives its partition, never trusting it, with one rule for subvolume and codec requests: an environment that selects the legacy partition is rejected, since a legacy build is named by content_hash alone. A subvolume request may not set both identities, and a codec request's two hashes must agree. btrfs::deterministic_template_received_uuid takes the build's directory name, which is the bare digest for a legacy build, so legacy UUIDs are unchanged. Disk metrics count every partition's build directories.
Codec requests that name a partition resolve their parent from candidates. A sandbox bound to another environment can descend from a build of a partition its binding doesn't name, so for a request carrying environment_build the three codec handlers try, in order, the partition it names, the legacy build, then the digest's other build directories on disk. A request without the field names the legacy build only, exactly as on main, even when other partitions are on disk: its lineage checks fall back to Full rather than encode a stream against a build another node may not hold. The encodes take the first candidate the instance descends from, by their lineage checks; a restore receive takes the first stamped subvolume, and btrfs receive finds the stream's parent by its received UUID. This is the resolution part 6's sandbox-manager relies on, so part 6 leaves node-manager unchanged. node.proto describes it on BtrfsEncodeRootfsSendRequest.environment_build.
Sandbox-manager's template lookups at create, start and prepare send the sandbox's environment as the TemplateRef.environment preference. A template-manager without partitions ignores it, so they resolve the same build as before.
Build-manager publishes from the directory of the partition template-manager reports for the registered build, which is the legacy one while template-manager reports none. registered_build parses the RegisterTemplate response; an environment that doesn't parse fails the build at once instead of being retried, since template-manager has already registered it. A missing content hash is retried as before. Pruning deduplicates a hash listed once per partition.
Deliberately left for part 6, where template-manager starts storing partitioned builds: sandbox-manager naming a bound sandbox's parent partition in codec requests, publishing a capture's base snapshot under its environment's partition, and reading catalog metadata from a partition's directory, and node-ctl's choice of one build per name for the cluster inventory. Each of those acts on a partitioned directory, and before part 6 a build bound to another environment still lives in the legacy one, so landing them here would break restore, base-snapshot recording and catalog metadata for such builds on a node that allows another environment.
Template-manager is unchanged apart from passing the legacy partition to the path helpers and leaving the new fields unset. It ignores TemplateRef.environment in requests and never sets it in responses, which build-manager reads as a legacy build.
Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --check passes, and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warnings is clean.
Full workspace on Linux x86-64 through CI's run-rust-checks.sh. The unprivileged lane passes 12,454 of 12,455 nextest tests and its five follow-on suites. The one failure, wake_completion_record_is_visible_to_next_wake_lock_holder in sandbox-manager, is a timing race that fails the same way on main under load, in 1 of 3 package runs there; this diff doesn't touch its path, and it passes alone and in 3 of 3 package runs here. The privileged lane passes 70 of 76; the 6 failures are in crates this diff doesn't touch and depend on the host: three fs-verity tests on a kernel without fs-verity, two contained_launcher tests whose temp directories sit under non-root-owned paths, and spaced-guest-worker::embedding, which needs a private cgroup namespace. CI's privileged lane runs them.
New and changed tests, each checked by a mutation that fails it:
cache_partition tests (initial_and_unbound_builds_share_the_legacy_partition, other_environments_get_their_own_partition, legacy_directory_and_key_are_unchanged, partitioned_directory_and_key_round_trip, non_build_directory_names_are_rejected): fail when the initial-environment comparison or the digest check on a directory name is removed.
cached_template_partitions_report_a_dir_they_cannot_list: fails when a listing error reads as no partitions.
host_linux_paths_preserve_space_layout: fails when a snapshot directory ignores the partition.
template_cache_partition_keeps_e0_in_the_legacy_layout: fails when the initial reference isn't passed.
Node-manager legacy_template_targets_keep_their_directory_and_received_uuid, environment_template_targets_use_their_own_directory_and_received_uuid, environment_template_targets_reject_ambiguous_or_legacy_identities and sandbox_codec_requests_resolve_their_parent_in_its_partition: fail when the UUID ignores or misformats the partition, when both identities are accepted, when mismatched hashes are accepted, or when a codec request naming the initial environment is accepted. absent_template_build_is_a_lineage_precondition_only_for_suspend keeps passing through the new target type.
deterministic_uuid_for_a_partitioned_build_is_pinned (btrfs) and the same literal in the node-manager test above pin one partitioned build's received_uuid, computed independently from the frozen namespace; that computation reproduces the existing legacy pin.
sandbox_codec_parent_candidates_fall_back_to_the_legacy_build, sandbox_codec_parent_candidates_include_the_digest_s_other_cached_partitions and the_first_accepted_parent_candidate_wins: fail when the legacy fallback is dropped, when a request without environment_build picks up another partition found on disk, or when the first accepted candidate isn't preferred.
classify_disk_metric_targets_uses_disk_layout and inventory_includes_each_generation_and_retained_rootfs_without_following_links: fail when partitioned directories aren't counted.
Sandbox-manager sandbox_starts_prefer_the_build_of_their_saved_environment, and the environment lookup in explicit_selection_checks_legacy_base_evidence_before_create: each fails when its call site drops the preference.
publish_receives_the_registered_build_s_environment (build-manager): a build registered with an environment publishes with that environment. Fails when the executor passes None instead.
a_registration_reports_the_environment_template_manager_echoes, an_unusable_registration_response_is_final_only_for_its_environment and a_registered_build_publishes_from_its_partition_s_directory (build-manager engine): absent, E0, another environment and an invalid value. They fail when the parsed environment is dropped, when an invalid one is retried, or when publishing ignores the partition.
Not validated: a Kind or deployed run, and a rolling deploy.
The warm-start lookup preference in start.rs has no test of its own; the start and prepare lookups beside it do.
Nothing sends a partitioned build yet. Node-manager's handling of EnvironmentTemplateBuild is covered by unit tests only, until part 6's template-manager and sandbox-manager send it.
TemplateRef constructors. Most files here change only to add environment: None to a TemplateRef literal. Constructors such as exact, tagged and .preferring would remove those edits and the next field's; that's a mechanical refactor across about 58 call sites, left out of this PR.
Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply. This is preparation for part 6.
Risk: low. Node-manager accepts EnvironmentTemplateBuild, but no component in this PR sends it, and a request without it resolves the legacy directory and received_uuid that main does. Sandbox-manager's lookup preference is ignored by template-manager until part 6, and build-manager reads an absent environment as the legacy directory. Old and new components interoperate both ways, and every proto field is additive.
What a node can observe before part 6, none of which changes a result:
Node-manager's btrfs codec log lines gain a partition field beside template and content_hash.
Both encodes validate the template name and hash first, so a malformed request gets InvalidArgument before a suspend creates its snapshot directory or a named-snapshot encode checks its source.
Disk metrics count {hash}@{env} build directories. Only a node that ran the earlier, reverted landing of cache partitions can hold one. Codec requests without environment_build, the only kind sent today, ignore them.
A template-manager from that earlier landing could send partitioned subvolume requests; this node-manager now accepts them.
A broken build whose compiled pins can't describe E0 panics on first use of the initial reference instead of treating every E0 build as partitioned.
Roll back by reverting this PR.
Rollout
Deploy in any order relative to the parts below it. Part 6 relies on this part's node-manager and build-manager being deployed before its template-manager stores or reports partitioned builds, and on this part's node-manager before its sandbox-manager names a partition in codec requests.
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Template cache paths and received UUIDs now distinguish builds associated with non-initial environments while preserving the legacy layout. Build registration and publication carry environment information. Node-manager requests can identify environment-specific builds and check cached candidates. Sandbox template lookups pass selected or saved environment preferences. The RPC definitions add environment-build and cached-only fields, and node disk inventory recognizes partitioned build directories.
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perplexityai/SPACE#1075: Uses the environment-partition interfaces to store, select, and transfer builds in environment-specific partitions.
Merge Risk: High · up to 356f6
Template restore paths now use partition-aware build identities and parent selection. Validate an existing snapshot restore across the affected services before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 356f6
Environment-qualified build identities add security-sensitive cache operations, but current callers continue using the legacy layout. Inspected authorization and identity checks remain in place. No new exploitable boundary bypass was established; deployment and recovery coverage remains incomplete.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The privileged operation surface concerns a node's shared template cache and sandbox filesystem artifacts. Template mutations require root, an administrator, or template-manager; codecs require root, an administrator, or sandbox-manager. Environment-qualified identity does not itself grant an unauthenticated tenant access to those operations.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Privileged filesystem targets are derived after validating template names, content digests, and environment references. Initial-environment identities cannot be supplied as dedicated partitions. Finalization derives the received UUID from the same partition-qualified directory identity used for the filesystem target.
observed — Sandbox creation and start authorize callers and ownership before environment-preferred lookup. Template-manager also authorizes GetTemplate before cache access. The preference does not replace lookup scope, compatibility checks, or the persisted sandbox execution binding.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The changed delta-transfer request explicitly leaves environment unset. Its legacy path retains exact-hash cached-only lookup, locked revalidation, inode-pinned base identity, post-operation verification, and staged publication with cleanup on failure. The review did not establish those guarantees for future partitioned delta-base activation.
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MockBuildBackend::publish discards _environment. Every fixture sets BuildOutcome.environment: None. The executor now forwards outcome.environment to publish_build, which selects the cache partition. If a change drops that argument or passes None, no test fails.
Capture the argument, the same way environment_calls captures the build argument. Use one fixture with Some(reference) and assert that publish receives it. The assertion then has an independent oracle: the registered environment must select the cache partition at publish.
Add publish_environments: Mutex<Vec<Option<pplx_space_common_core::types::EnvironmentReference>>> to MockBuildBackend. It derives Default, so no other change is needed.
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Fixed in 06c49ef: MockBuildBackend::publish now records the environment it receives, and publish_receives_the_registered_build_s_environment builds with BuildOutcome.environment: Some(..) and asserts publish gets that same environment. Passing None from the executor instead fails the test.
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A content hash names rootfs bytes, not an execution environment. So a rootfs bound to two environments ("twins") needs two cache entries on a node, each with its own directory, base snapshots and btrfs received_uuid. Part 6 (#1075) keys template-manager's cache by a cache partition. Before that can land, node-manager, sandbox-manager, build-manager and node-ctl have to agree on where a partitioned build lives, and node-manager has to accept partitioned builds before anything sends one. This PR adds the shared type, path helpers, additive wire fields and node-manager validation. It is inert until part 6: template-manager still writes only the legacy layout.
py@sha256:abc, unbound or bound to E0 -> py/sha256:abc received_uuid = v5("py@sha256:abc") (unchanged)
py@sha256:abc, bound to E1 -> py/sha256:abc@sha256:e1.. received_uuid = v5("py@sha256:abc@sha256:e1..")
Node-manager now accepts both forms; nothing sends the second until part 6.
Verdict: comment. Taken alone this PR deploys in any order. Legacy directories, snapshot directories and received_uuid values are byte-identical (the golden pin is unchanged). Template subvolume requests that carry EnvironmentTemplateBuild fail closed on an older node-manager. Every component that derives a partition goes through the same template_cache_partition. There is no migration or SQL change. The main item is the codec contract below, which part 6's rollout depends on. #1075 isn't superseded by the split: it alone carries the migration and the partition-keyed template-manager. It is still one commit carrying parts 2 to 6, and its description marks part 3 unmerged, so it should go back to draft until it's rebased onto this PR.
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Node-manager resolves a codec request's parent in exactly one partition, but part 6's node-manager resolves a list of candidates
Two tests don't pin values part 6 relies on
The description's Rollout leaves out build-manager, and "changes no behavior on any node" is too broad
Follow-ups
initial_environment_reference() returns Option and caches None. for_environment(Some(E0), None) then gives Environment(E0), which would move every E0 build out of the legacy layout once part 6 writes by partition. The golden test makes this unreachable in shipped builds, so the Option buys nothing. Making the function infallible, or having node-manager refuse environment builds while E0 is unknown, closes it. The name also hides that it is the x86-64 reference on every architecture. Sandbox-manager's is_non_default_execution keeps its own cache of the same value (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/validation.rs:476-514); having it call the catalog function keeps admission and partitioning from drifting apart.
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docs/space/design/rootfs-backing.md:178: kind=template is "one canonical rootfs per name/content-hash cache entry". It now also counts {hash}@{env} directories.
proto/template/manager/v1/manager.proto:168: "Reserved for template caches…" reads like proto reserved. "For template caches…" avoids that.
proto/node/v1/node.proto:1111: "Servers reject … one whose environment selects the legacy partition" holds only for subvolume requests. A codec request naming E0 resolves the legacy build (btrfs_delegation.rs:183-187).
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The pre-merge note on the delta-base regression test refers to part 4's change (#1582). It showed up in this diff because the review ran on adec971 just after this PR was retargeted from part 4's branch to main. Part 4 has merged, and this PR is now rebased onto main as 356f6bc. Its diff no longer contains the delta-base change, and part 4's own PR names that regression test.
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Summary
Adds the types, wire fields and privileged-side plumbing that let a node keep one template build per execution environment, outside template-manager's own storage. Template-manager still keeps every build in the single legacy layout, nothing in this PR sends a partitioned build to node-manager, and the callers that will read or write a partitioned build switch in part 6, together with the storage that holds one. The few changes a node can observe before then are listed under "Severity and risk"; none of them changes a result.
Terms
TemplateCachePartition): where a node keeps a template build.Legacyholds unbound builds and builds bound to the Linux/x86-64 initial environment (E0), in{name}/{content_hash}. Any other environment getsEnvironment(reference), in{name}/{content_hash}@{reference}.BtrfsEncodeRootfsSend(suspend),BtrfsEncodeSnapshotRootfsSend(operation snapshot) andBtrfsReceiveInstance(restore).Stack
The stack lets one node cache twins: each needs its own build directory, catalog row, base snapshots and tag pins, which template-manager keys by
(name, content_hash)today. Each part builds, passes its tests and is safe to deploy on its own. Parts 1 to 4 are merged, and this PR targets main.DeleteTemplateBuildcan clear one.(name, content_hash, cache partition).The problem
A content hash names rootfs bytes, not an environment, so a rootfs bound to two environments needs two cache entries with their own manifest, base snapshots and btrfs subvolume. Part 6 changes template-manager's catalog to key builds by partition. Every other component that names a build on disk also has to agree on where a partitioned build lives: node-manager's privileged btrfs RPCs, which compute the directory and the subvolume's
received_uuid; sandbox-manager, which names the parent build in codec requests and publishes base snapshots; build-manager, which publishes from the registered build's directory; and node-ctl, which publishes the node's templates to the cluster inventory. Landing all of that with the migration makes part 6 much larger. In particular, node-manager has to understand a partitioned build before any template-manager or sandbox-manager sends one, and the shared types and wire fields have to exist before either side can use them.How this fixes it
TemplateCachePartition(common core) selects a build's partition from its environment and the initial one, and names its build directory, key and display form.paths::template_build_dirandpaths::template_snapshot_dirtake a partition;paths::cached_template_partitions_inlists a digest's partitions on disk and returns a listing error rather than an empty list.TemplateManifest::environmentandTemplateMetadata::environmentread a document's binding. Part 6's template-manager is the caller of the listing, key and document helpers.initial_environment_reference(), computed once, andtemplate_cache_partition(environment). The reference is infallible: it panics when the compiled pins can't describe E0, a broken build, rather than returnNoneand silently move every E0 build out of the legacy partition. A test pins E0's reference and that E0 and unbound builds map toLegacy. Sandbox-manager's own per-architecture helper now returns this reference for x86-64 (andNonefor aarch64, which has no initial environment), so one function decides which environment is the legacy one.TemplateRef.environmentis a lookup preference in requests and the resolved build's binding in responses.EnvironmentTemplateBuildnames a partitioned build. Template subvolume create, finalize and delete carry it instead ofcontent_hash, so a node-manager that predates it rejects the request rather than acting on the legacy build. The three codec requests carry it besidecontent_hash, so an older node-manager resolves the legacy build as before.TemplateBuildTarget.environment_build_partitionparses everyEnvironmentTemplateBuildand derives its partition, never trusting it, with one rule for subvolume and codec requests: an environment that selects the legacy partition is rejected, since a legacy build is named bycontent_hashalone. A subvolume request may not set both identities, and a codec request's two hashes must agree.btrfs::deterministic_template_received_uuidtakes the build's directory name, which is the bare digest for a legacy build, so legacy UUIDs are unchanged. Disk metrics count every partition's build directories.environment_buildthe three codec handlers try, in order, the partition it names, the legacy build, then the digest's other build directories on disk. A request without the field names the legacy build only, exactly as on main, even when other partitions are on disk: its lineage checks fall back to Full rather than encode a stream against a build another node may not hold. The encodes take the first candidate the instance descends from, by their lineage checks; a restore receive takes the first stamped subvolume, andbtrfs receivefinds the stream's parent by its received UUID. This is the resolution part 6's sandbox-manager relies on, so part 6 leaves node-manager unchanged.node.protodescribes it onBtrfsEncodeRootfsSendRequest.environment_build.TemplateRef.environmentpreference. A template-manager without partitions ignores it, so they resolve the same build as before.registered_buildparses theRegisterTemplateresponse; an environment that doesn't parse fails the build at once instead of being retried, since template-manager has already registered it. A missing content hash is retried as before. Pruning deduplicates a hash listed once per partition.Deliberately left for part 6, where template-manager starts storing partitioned builds: sandbox-manager naming a bound sandbox's parent partition in codec requests, publishing a capture's base snapshot under its environment's partition, and reading catalog metadata from a partition's directory, and node-ctl's choice of one build per name for the cluster inventory. Each of those acts on a partitioned directory, and before part 6 a build bound to another environment still lives in the legacy one, so landing them here would break restore, base-snapshot recording and catalog metadata for such builds on a node that allows another environment.
Template-manager is unchanged apart from passing the legacy partition to the path helpers and leaving the new fields unset. It ignores
TemplateRef.environmentin requests and never sets it in responses, which build-manager reads as a legacy build.Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --checkpasses, andcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warningsis clean.run-rust-checks.sh. The unprivileged lane passes 12,454 of 12,455 nextest tests and its five follow-on suites. The one failure,wake_completion_record_is_visible_to_next_wake_lock_holderin sandbox-manager, is a timing race that fails the same way on main under load, in 1 of 3 package runs there; this diff doesn't touch its path, and it passes alone and in 3 of 3 package runs here. The privileged lane passes 70 of 76; the 6 failures are in crates this diff doesn't touch and depend on the host: three fs-verity tests on a kernel without fs-verity, twocontained_launchertests whose temp directories sit under non-root-owned paths, andspaced-guest-worker::embedding, which needs a private cgroup namespace. CI's privileged lane runs them.cache_partitiontests (initial_and_unbound_builds_share_the_legacy_partition,other_environments_get_their_own_partition,legacy_directory_and_key_are_unchanged,partitioned_directory_and_key_round_trip,non_build_directory_names_are_rejected): fail when the initial-environment comparison or the digest check on a directory name is removed.cached_template_partitions_report_a_dir_they_cannot_list: fails when a listing error reads as no partitions.host_linux_paths_preserve_space_layout: fails when a snapshot directory ignores the partition.template_cache_partition_keeps_e0_in_the_legacy_layout: fails when the initial reference isn't passed.legacy_template_targets_keep_their_directory_and_received_uuid,environment_template_targets_use_their_own_directory_and_received_uuid,environment_template_targets_reject_ambiguous_or_legacy_identitiesandsandbox_codec_requests_resolve_their_parent_in_its_partition: fail when the UUID ignores or misformats the partition, when both identities are accepted, when mismatched hashes are accepted, or when a codec request naming the initial environment is accepted.absent_template_build_is_a_lineage_precondition_only_for_suspendkeeps passing through the new target type.deterministic_uuid_for_a_partitioned_build_is_pinned(btrfs) and the same literal in the node-manager test above pin one partitioned build'sreceived_uuid, computed independently from the frozen namespace; that computation reproduces the existing legacy pin.sandbox_codec_parent_candidates_fall_back_to_the_legacy_build,sandbox_codec_parent_candidates_include_the_digest_s_other_cached_partitionsandthe_first_accepted_parent_candidate_wins: fail when the legacy fallback is dropped, when a request withoutenvironment_buildpicks up another partition found on disk, or when the first accepted candidate isn't preferred.classify_disk_metric_targets_uses_disk_layoutandinventory_includes_each_generation_and_retained_rootfs_without_following_links: fail when partitioned directories aren't counted.sandbox_starts_prefer_the_build_of_their_saved_environment, and the environment lookup inexplicit_selection_checks_legacy_base_evidence_before_create: each fails when its call site drops the preference.publish_receives_the_registered_build_s_environment(build-manager): a build registered with an environment publishes with that environment. Fails when the executor passesNoneinstead.a_registration_reports_the_environment_template_manager_echoes,an_unusable_registration_response_is_final_only_for_its_environmentanda_registered_build_publishes_from_its_partition_s_directory(build-manager engine): absent, E0, another environment and an invalid value. They fail when the parsed environment is dropped, when an invalid one is retried, or when publishing ignores the partition.Not validated: a Kind or deployed run, and a rolling deploy.
Dependencies
TemplateRef.environmentfield, toNone, in part 4's delta-base lookup and its tests.Not covered
start.rshas no test of its own; the start and prepare lookups beside it do.EnvironmentTemplateBuildis covered by unit tests only, until part 6's template-manager and sandbox-manager send it.TemplateRefconstructors. Most files here change only to addenvironment: Noneto aTemplateRefliteral. Constructors such asexact,taggedand.preferringwould remove those edits and the next field's; that's a mechanical refactor across about 58 call sites, left out of this PR.Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply. This is preparation for part 6.
Risk: low. Node-manager accepts
EnvironmentTemplateBuild, but no component in this PR sends it, and a request without it resolves the legacy directory andreceived_uuidthat main does. Sandbox-manager's lookup preference is ignored by template-manager until part 6, and build-manager reads an absent environment as the legacy directory. Old and new components interoperate both ways, and every proto field is additive.What a node can observe before part 6, none of which changes a result:
partitionfield besidetemplateandcontent_hash.InvalidArgumentbefore a suspend creates its snapshot directory or a named-snapshot encode checks its source.{hash}@{env}build directories. Only a node that ran the earlier, reverted landing of cache partitions can hold one. Codec requests withoutenvironment_build, the only kind sent today, ignore them.Roll back by reverting this PR.
Rollout
Deploy in any order relative to the parts below it. Part 6 relies on this part's node-manager and build-manager being deployed before its template-manager stores or reports partitioned builds, and on this part's node-manager before its sandbox-manager names a partition in codec requests.
AI assistance: Claude Code ported the change from the stack's top commit and drafted the tests and this description; reviewed by the author.