feat(media): share one metadata set between Jellyfin and Plex over an SSD overlay

Both media servers read a Kodi-format sidecar (movie.nfo / tvshow.nfo /
episode.nfo) only when it sits next to the media file, and the library lives on
the RAID6 array, deliberately mounted read-only for every container and slow to
seek for a thousand tiny XML reads. So neither server binds the array any more:
both bind /mnt/media, an OverlayFS merge of the array (lowerdir, never written)
with /var/lib/media-meta on the NVMe (upperdir, where every write lands).

Jellyfin binds the view rw at /data and is the fleet's only metadata writer;
Plex binds it ro at /mnt/entropy, the container path its own database already
recorded, so only the host side of that bind moved and its library paths keep
resolving.

scripts/media-view.sh plans, installs, verifies, reports and reaps the view. It
refuses to mount over an unmounted array, refuses an upper layer on rotational
storage, and refuses a non-root install. deploy-remote.sh raises the view before
it restarts either media server, both units carry
ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/mnt/media so a missing view skips the start instead of
letting a scan clear the library database, and the planner routes the installer
and dankserver/host/** to the jellyfin+plex pair.

tests/media_overlay.bats (11 seams) pins the resolved shape, both refusals, the
two binds and their guard, the deployer's ordering, the planner mapping, and the
reap behaviour against a fixture (ghosts listed, then moved to the SSD trash --
files that exist only above are sidecars, not ghosts, so only directories are
candidates).
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dankserver/.env.example|dankclaw/.env.example)
add_test tests/env_consistency.bats
;;
# The SSD-backed metadata view: the installer, the host mount unit, and the
# two media units that bind the view rather than the raw array.
scripts/media-view.sh|dankserver/host/*)
add_test tests/media_overlay.bats
add_test tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats
add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
;;
dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/*|dankserver/plex/quadlet/*)
add_test tests/media_overlay.bats
;;
shared/homepage/*)
add_test tests/homepage_caddy.bats
add_test tests/homepage_config.bats