docs(media): the SSD metadata view has never been deployed on Dankserver

The vault described the overlay as the live shape. It is not: `media-view.sh
status` answers NOT MOUNTED, /var/lib/media-meta does not exist, and the
installed quadlets under ~/.config/containers/systemd still carry the pre-view
binds (/mnt/entropy:/data:ro for Jellyfin, /mnt/entropy:/mnt/entropy:ro for
Plex) while git binds the view with ConditionPathIsMountPoint. The deploy gate
(deploy-remote.sh:ensure_media_view) has therefore never run: the first
`deploy.sh dankserver --service jellyfin|plex` is an untested cutover of both
media servers, and Jellyfin's read-only sidecar error is today's expected state,
not a fault.

Same commit, the scan-acceptance law from tonight's TV handoff: it logged
`jellyfin scan: 401`, so Jellyfin never rescanned a 58k-move library until the
request was re-issued with the identical key and header form (204). Anything
that is not 204 means no scan was queued — re-issue, do not diagnose.

AGENTS.md

@@ -851,6 +851,6 @@ history.
 | Benchmarking (only when ordered) | **Stop and mask the service first**, bench, unmask, restart, verify health. |
 | Deleting a file | **Move it to trash** — `.AGENTTRASH/` (in-repo) or `~/.AGENTTRASH/YYYYMMDD-topic`. Never `rm`. |
 | Relayout the movie library | **Census → plan → read the exceptions → `scripts/media-apply.py`** — renames only, journal before every move; never hand-rename, never copy. |
-| Making media metadata visible to both media servers | **Bind `/var/lib/media-meta/view`** — the overlay `scripts/media-view.sh` installs (array below, NVMe above). Never write the array; never delete through the view. |
+| Making media metadata visible to both media servers | **Bind `/var/lib/media-meta/view`** — the overlay `scripts/media-view.sh` installs (array below, NVMe above). Never write the array; never delete through the view. **Not yet deployed on Dankserver: the live quadlets still bind the array read-only — see [[Media Metadata View]].** |
 | Tests exist | **Run them** — verify tests pass after every change. Do not commit failing tests. |
 | Real secrets | **Never commit** — host `.env` files; `.env.example` holds placeholders only. |

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Jellyfin.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ clients.
 public vhost `jelly.franksdank.cloud` behind the [[Anubis]] guard chain →
 [[Authentik]] outpost (post-auth route proxies `localhost:8096`).
 
-## Facts (verified from the live unit, 2026-09-03)
+## Facts (the repo quadlet; the live unit is still the pre-view generation — see Data layout)
 
 | Item | Value |
 |------|-------|
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public vhost `jelly.franksdank.cloud` behind the [[Anubis]] guard chain →
 | Image | `ghcr.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest` |
 | Network | `dankserver_appnet`; publishes 8096/tcp, 8920/tcp, 7359/udp, 1900/udp |
 | Data roots | `/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/config:/config`, `/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache:/cache` |
-| Media | `Volume=/var/lib/media-meta/view:/data` — the [[Media Metadata View]] overlay, **writable**; sidecars land on the NVMe, the [[Entropy Volume]] array underneath stays read-only and untouched |
+| Media | `Volume=/var/lib/media-meta/view:/data` in git — the [[Media Metadata View]] overlay, **writable**, sidecars land on the NVMe and the [[Entropy Volume]] array underneath stays untouched. **The live unit is still pre-view: `/mnt/entropy:/data:ro`** — nothing is written into the library until the view is deployed |
 | GPU | none — no `AddDevice`; CPU decode only (jellyfin-ffmpeg path) |
 | Env quirks | `DOTNET_SYSTEM_IO_DISABLEFILELOCKING=true`, `LD_PRELOAD=libjemalloc.so.2`, `MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=131072` kept verbatim from the compose-era container (zero-drift cutover) |
 | Health | `curl -f http://localhost:8096/health` every 30 s |
@@ -36,23 +36,27 @@ public vhost `jelly.franksdank.cloud` behind the [[Anubis]] guard chain →
 ```
 /home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/config   -> /config   (JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR)
 /home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache    -> /cache    (JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR, XDG_CACHE_HOME)
-/var/lib/media-meta/view                -> /data     (the SSD-backed overlay view)
+/var/lib/media-meta/view                -> /data     (git: the overlay view)
+/mnt/entropy                             -> /data     (live today: the array, read-only)
 ```
 
-Library folders point at `/data` paths, which are the view's paths: stable
+Library folders point at `/data` paths: stable across container recreation and
-across container recreation, and identical to the raw array layout below it.
+identical to the raw array layout below. Which side of that path the container
+is on is the open question on this host — the installed unit binds the read-only
+array, and `scripts/media-view.sh status` reports `NOT MOUNTED` (2026-10-31).
 
-`Local metadata` — save metadata to media folders — is enabled, and it works
+`Local metadata` — save metadata to media folders — is enabled, and it is the
-because `/data` is the [[Media Metadata View]] rather than the read-only array:
+reason the view exists: `movie.nfo`, `tvshow.nfo`, `episode.nfo` and artwork
-`movie.nfo`, `tvshow.nfo`, `episode.nfo` and artwork are written once, on the
+written once on the NVMe upper layer are files [[Plex]] can read too. While
-NVMe upper layer, and [[Plex]] reads the same files. Jellyfin is the fleet's
+`/data` is bound read-only every item update logs the error below and no sidecar
-only metadata writer.
+is written; Jellyfin becomes the fleet's only metadata writer with the deploy
+that raises the view.
 
 **Failure signature:** `System.IO.IOException: Read-only file system :
 '/data/Movies/<film>/movie.nfo'` means the container is binding the raw array
-instead of the view — the view is unmounted or the quadlet drifted. That used to
+instead of the view. On Dankserver that is today's expected state — the view has
-be the expected state (pre-view, every item update logged it); today it is a
+never been installed (`scripts/media-view.sh status`). Once it is deployed, the
-fault. Run `scripts/media-view.sh status`.
+same line is a fault: the quadlet drifted or the mount died.
 
 ## Ports & access
 

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Metadata View.md

@@ -20,6 +20,19 @@ The mount point is not a volume and holds nothing while unmounted. It sits insid
 merged door are one directory — and so the mount table grows no new `/mnt` entry
 next to the array.
 
+**Not deployed on Dankserver — verified 2026-10-31.** `scripts/media-view.sh
+status` answers `view: /var/lib/media-meta/view NOT MOUNTED`,
+`/var/lib/media-meta` does not exist, and the installed quadlets under
+`~/.config/containers/systemd/` still carry the pre-view binds — `/mnt/entropy:/data:ro`
+for [[Jellyfin]], `/mnt/entropy:/mnt/entropy:ro` for [[Plex]]. Everything below
+is the shape git describes, not the shape the servers run. The cutover is an
+ordinary deploy: `deploy.sh dankserver --service jellyfin|plex` runs
+`ensure_media_view` (`install` then `verify`) before it restarts the container,
+so it must not be fired through the middle of a library scan. Until that deploy
+lands there is no upper layer, so no relayout can leave ghost metadata and
+`reap` has nothing to do — `media-apply.py` prints that follow-up only when the
+view really is a mountpoint.
+
 ## Shape
 
 | Item | Value |

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ curl -s -K /tmp/jf.hdr -o /dev/null -w "jellyfin scan: %{http_code}\n"
 shred -u /tmp/jf.hdr
 ```
 
-`204` is acceptance; the scan then runs on the server's own schedule.
+`204` is acceptance — anything else is no scan queued, `401` included (a handoff logged `401` with the same key and form that answered `200` seconds later), so re-issue rather than diagnose. The scan then runs on the server's own schedule.
 
 ### Proving the move landed
 
@@ -457,10 +457,10 @@ own journal, behind the music writer, and then refreshes the Plex section.
 - **Sidecar metadata does not follow a rename, because it lives on another
   filesystem.** The media servers write `.nfo` and artwork through the
   [[Media Metadata View]] (NVMe upper layer); this tool moves bytes on the raw
-  array path. After any sweep or TV move, run `scripts/media-view.sh reap`, then
+  array path, so where that view is mounted a sweep or a move must be followed by
-  the same command with `--apply`: the sidecars left at the old coordinates become
+  `scripts/media-view.sh reap --apply` — stranded sidecars become ghost folders
-  ghost folders — artwork and an `.nfo` with no video — that both servers browse
+  that both servers browse and report as content. Whether this host mounts the
-  and report as content.
+  view at all is stated on that page; `media-apply.py` stays silent when it does not.
 - **Nothing deletes through the metadata view.** A delete there writes an overlayfs
   whiteout in the upper layer, which hides the array's copy without removing it;
   the file returns when the view is unmounted. Deletions in this pipeline happen

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Plex.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public traffic can be fronted by Caddy like every other vhost.
 | Runtime | podman quadlet, `plex.service` (user manager) — migrated from the native `plexmediaserver.service` OS-package unit (2026-09) |
 | Image | `lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:1.43.5.11029-6bf8af3f0-ls329` (pinned; verified == the registry's `latest` manifest digest at pin time: `sha256:8f655bad…e9e2334`) |
 | Data root | `/var/lib/plexmediaserver` bind-mounted **in place** as `/config` (RW) — the migration moved zero bytes |
-| Media | `/var/lib/media-meta/view` (the [[Media Metadata View]] overlay) bound at the same absolute path `/mnt/entropy` **read-only** — every library path in the PMS database stayed valid, zero re-scan |
+| Media | git: `/var/lib/media-meta/view` (the [[Media Metadata View]] overlay) bound at the same absolute path `/mnt/entropy` **read-only**; live today: `/mnt/entropy` itself, read-only — the view has never been installed. Either way every library path in the PMS database stays valid, zero re-scan |
 | Identity | fleet rootless model — container root maps to the `dank` user (1000:1000); the deployer chowns the data root on first cutover |
 | Port | `32400/tcp` published on `0.0.0.0` — zero client reconfiguration |
 | Network | `dankserver_appnet`, alias `plex`; Tautulli reaches it at `http://plex:32400` |
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ public traffic can be fronted by Caddy like every other vhost.
 The migration moved zero bytes: the container bind-mounts the native data
 root where it already lived, and the media archive re-mounts at
 `/mnt/entropy` inside the container — only the HOST side of that bind has moved
-(array, then the overlay view), so every absolute library path in the
+(the array today; the overlay view in git has never been deployed), so every
+absolute library path in the
 PMS database keeps resolving. The one metadata change: rootless podman
 cannot map the real host uid 997, so the fleet model applies — container
 root runs as the `dank` user, and the deployer adopts the data root with