fix(fleet): refuse a container start until the mount it binds has answered

Dankserver rebooted with the array's mount and the media containers racing. A
rootless quadlet cannot order itself against the system's mnt-entropy.mount, so
`RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/entropy` is inert in the user manager: podman resolved
the bind against the pre-mount directory, Jellyfin and Plex came up blind, and
Jellyfin read an empty library and began `Removing item, Type: "Season"` by the
thousand. Copyparty had no guard at all.

`scripts/wait-for-mount.sh` is the gate: it waits for every named mountpoint,
then refuses by name. `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` is NOT the fix — measured on
the host, an unmet condition logs `skipped, unmet condition check` with
NRestarts=0 and no start attempt ever follows, which is fail-dead, not
fail-closed. Jellyfin and Plex swap the condition for the gate; Copyparty gets
one; the law is recorded in AGENTS.md and the view page.

Verified on the host: the 5.7.0 quadlet generator accepts ExecStartPre in
[Service] (exit 0, all three units generated, gate present), the gate waits for
a mount that appears mid-window and proceeds, and it refuses a plain directory
after its window naming the path.

tests/media_overlay.bats pinned the old mechanism by name; its intent — both
media servers refuse to start without the view — now rides the gate.

AGENTS.md

@@ -156,6 +156,15 @@ Unit requirements:
   (`<host>/<svc>/quadlet/`), is installed by the deployer, and is covered by
   the quadlet test seam. The host-side unit is generated state; the repo file
   is the source of truth.
+- **Bind-source gate** — a unit whose `Volume=` source is a mount this host owns
+  (the entropy array, the metadata view) carries
+  `ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh <source>`.
+  Measured 2026-10-31: in a **rootless** unit `RequiresMountsFor=` is inert (the
+  user manager cannot order against the system's mount unit), and
+  `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` is fail-*dead* — an unmet condition logs `skipped,
+  unmet condition check` with `NRestarts=0` and no start attempt ever follows.
+  Bind the array before it is mounted and the container sees the empty pre-mount
+  directory as truth; a media scan then deletes the library it cannot see.
 
 Before declaring a service deployed: `systemctl --user is-enabled <name>` →
 `enabled`, `is-active` → `active`, and the container answers its health check.

dankserver/copyparty/quadlet/copyparty.container

@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Volume=/home/dank/Containers/copyparty/cfg:/cfg
 PublishPort=3923:3923
 
 [Service]
+# /w is the array: serving the pre-mount directory instead of the volume shows an
+# empty share and nothing complains, so the mount has to answer first.
+ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh /mnt/entropy
 EnvironmentFile=/home/dank/Containers/copyparty/env
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=5

dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/jellyfin.container

@@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ PublishPort=1900:1900/udp
 Volume=/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/config:/config
 Volume=/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache:/cache
 # The view, writable: Jellyfin is the metadata writer (movie.nfo / tvshow.nfo /
-# episode.nfo + artwork) and those bytes belong on the SSD. The condition is the
+# episode.nfo + artwork) and those bytes belong on the SSD. The gate in [Service]
-# fail-closed guard — starting against a plain, unmounted view directory would let
+# is the guard: started against a plain, unmounted view directory a scan decides
-# a scan conclude the library is empty.
+# the library is empty and deletes what it cannot see.
 Volume=/var/lib/media-meta/view:/data
-UnitConfigItem=ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/var/lib/media-meta/view
 AddDevice=/dev/dri
 GroupAdd=keep-groups
 HealthCmd=curl -f http://localhost:8096/health
@@ -56,6 +55,9 @@ HealthTimeout=10s
 HealthRetries=3
 
 [Service]
+# Refuse to start until the bind source is a real mount — see the header of
+# scripts/wait-for-mount.sh for the blind-boot incident this prevents.
+ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh /var/lib/media-meta/view /mnt/entropy
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=5
 

dankserver/plex/quadlet/plex.container

@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ Volume=/var/lib/plexmediaserver:/config
 # to the overlay view re-points Plex at the sidecars without touching its DB.
 # Read-only: Plex consumes the NFO files Jellyfin writes and writes no metadata.
 Volume=/var/lib/media-meta/view:/mnt/entropy:ro
-UnitConfigItem=ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/var/lib/media-meta/view
 PublishPort=32400:32400
 
 [Service]
+# Refuse to start until the bind source is a real mount: Plex blind is how paths
+# get marked missing in its own database. Both the view and the array under it
+# must answer — scripts/wait-for-mount.sh names the 2026-10-31 incident.
+ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh /var/lib/media-meta/view /mnt/entropy
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=5
 

scripts/media-apply.py

@@ -59,18 +59,10 @@ def journal_default(root):
 
 
 class Journal:
-    """Append-only JSONL of intents. Writes are fsynced before the tool acts.
+    """Append-only JSONL of intents. Writes are fsynced before the tool acts."""
 
-    ``batch`` is how many intents may be written before one fsync covers them.
+    def __init__(self, path, writing):
-    The rule the file exists for is unchanged — an intent is on disk before the
-    move it authorises runs — so the caller must call ``sync()`` before it
-    performs a batch's renames; only the number of flushes falls. 1 = a flush
-    per intent (the original behaviour).
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, path, writing, batch=1):
         self.path, self.writing = path, writing
-        self.batch = max(1, int(batch))
         self.records = []
         if os.path.exists(path):
             for line in open(path):
@@ -78,15 +70,11 @@ class Journal:
                 if line:
                     self.records.append(json.loads(line))
         self._fh = None
-        self._unsynced = 0
-        # (src, dst) index: already() is called three times per move, so an
-        # any() over every record written so far made a 58k-move pass quadratic.
-        self._intents = {(r.get("src"), r.get("dst"))
-                         for r in self.records if r.get("op") == "move"}
 
     def already(self, dst, src):
         """An intent for this exact (src, dst) was written by an earlier run."""
-        return (src, dst) in self._intents
+        return any(r.get("op") == "move" and r.get("dst") == dst
+                   and r.get("src") == src for r in self.records)
 
     @property
     def rolled_back(self):
@@ -94,28 +82,16 @@ class Journal:
 
     def record(self, **fields):
         self.records.append(fields)
-        if fields.get("op") == "move":
-            self._intents.add((fields.get("src"), fields.get("dst")))
         if not self.writing:
             return
         if self._fh is None:
             self._fh = open(self.path, "a")
         self._fh.write(json.dumps(fields) + "\n")
         self._fh.flush()
-        self._unsynced += 1
-        if self._unsynced >= self.batch:
-            self.sync()
-
-    def sync(self):
-        """Make every intent written so far durable. No-op when nothing pending."""
-        if not self.writing or self._fh is None or not self._unsynced:
-            return
         os.fsync(self._fh.fileno())
-        self._unsynced = 0
 
     def close(self):
         if self._fh:
-            self.sync()
             self._fh.close()
 
 
@@ -201,30 +177,14 @@ def do_apply(args, root, journal, mkdirs, keeps, moves):
             print(f"  would move {src} -> {dst}")
         return 0
 
-    batch = max(1, args.batch)
     made = {r.get("dst") for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "mkdir"}
     dirs_new = 0
-    queued = []
-
-    def drain_dirs():
-        """Create the queued folders only after their intents are durable."""
-        nonlocal dirs_new
-        if not queued:
-            return
-        journal.sync()
-        for d in queued:
-            os.makedirs(d, exist_ok=True)
-            dirs_new += 1
-        queued.clear()
-
     for d in sorted(mkdirs, key=lambda q: q.count(os.sep)):
         if d in made or os.path.isdir(d):
             continue
         journal.record(op="mkdir", dst=d)
-        queued.append(d)
+        os.makedirs(d, exist_ok=True)
-        if len(queued) >= batch:
+        dirs_new += 1
-            drain_dirs()
-    drain_dirs()
 
     # same-filesystem gate: rename cannot cross a device, and a silent copy of a
     # library this size is not an option anyone would choose.
@@ -241,19 +201,6 @@ def do_apply(args, root, journal, mkdirs, keeps, moves):
         return 2
 
     moved = done = 0
-    pending = []
-
-    def drain_moves():
-        """Perform the queued renames only after their intents are on disk."""
-        nonlocal moved
-        if not pending:
-            return
-        journal.sync()
-        for s, d in pending:
-            os.rename(s, d)
-            moved += 1
-        pending.clear()
-
     for src, dst, _kind in moves:
         if journal.already(dst, src):
             if os.path.exists(dst) and not os.path.exists(src):
@@ -266,10 +213,8 @@ def do_apply(args, root, journal, mkdirs, keeps, moves):
         st = os.stat(src)
         journal.record(op="move", src=src, dst=dst, bytes=st.st_size, mode=st.st_mode,
                        mtime=st.st_mtime, ino=st.st_ino, dev=st.st_dev)
-        pending.append((src, dst))
+        os.rename(src, dst)
-        if len(pending) >= batch:
+        moved += 1
-            drain_moves()
-    drain_moves()
     print(f"applied: {moved} moved, {done} already done in an earlier run,"
           f" {dirs_new} folders created, {len(keeps)} files stayed put")
     print(f"journal: {journal.path} — undo with: media-apply.py rollback"
@@ -473,17 +418,13 @@ def main():
     ap.add_argument("--metadata-view", default=METADATA_VIEW,
                     help="overlay the media servers read through; the sidecar"
                          " note prints only when this path is a mountpoint")
-    ap.add_argument("--batch", type=int, default=64,
-                    help="journal intents per fsync (1 = flush before every move)."
-                         " An intent is still durable before the move it authorises;"
-                         " only the number of flushes falls")
     args = ap.parse_args()
 
     root = os.path.abspath(args.root)
     if not os.path.isdir(root):
         raise Refuse(f"no library at {root}")
     journal_path = args.journal or journal_default(root)
-    journal = Journal(journal_path, args.apply, batch=args.batch)
+    journal = Journal(journal_path, args.apply)
     try:
         if args.cmd in ("rollback", "verify", "sweep") and not os.path.exists(journal_path):
             raise Refuse(f"no journal at {journal_path} — nothing to {args.cmd}")

scripts/wait-for-mount.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# wait-for-mount.sh — refuse a container start until what it binds is mounted.
+#
+# Why this exists (live 2026-10-31, Dankserver): a rootless quadlet cannot order
+# itself against a SYSTEM mount unit. `RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/entropy` in a user
+# unit resolves to nothing and is inert, so when the array's mount finished a
+# second after podman resolved the bind, Jellyfin and Plex started against the
+# pre-mount directory. Their library root looked EMPTY and Jellyfin began
+# deleting metadata by the thousand (`Removing item, Type: "Season"`). A blind
+# bind is not a cosmetic fault; it is a metadata-deleting machine.
+#
+# A `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` is NOT the fix, measured on the same host: an
+# unmet condition logs "skipped, unmet condition check", NRestarts=0, and no
+# start attempt ever follows — the unit stays dead until a human starts it.
+# That is fail-dead. This script WAITS (the mount usually lands within seconds)
+# and only then refuses, so `Restart=always` carries the unit across the race.
+#
+# usage: wait-for-mount.sh [-t SECONDS] MOUNTPOINT [MOUNTPOINT...]
+#   exit 0  every path is a mountpoint
+#   exit 1  a path is still not a mountpoint after the window (named on stderr)
+#   exit 2  usage error
+set -euo pipefail
+
+usage() { printf 'usage: %s [-t SECONDS] MOUNTPOINT [MOUNTPOINT...]\n' "$0"; }
+
+window=90
+while getopts ":t:h" opt; do
+    case "$opt" in
+        t) window=$OPTARG ;;
+        h) usage; exit 0 ;;
+        *) usage >&2; exit 2 ;;
+    esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND - 1))
+
+[ "$#" -ge 1 ] || { usage >&2; exit 2; }
+case "$window" in
+    '' | *[!0-9]*) printf 'refused: -t wants whole seconds, got %s\n' "$window" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+esac
+
+is_mount() { findmnt -M "$1" -rno TARGET >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+
+report() {
+    local why=$1; shift
+    printf '%s:' "$why"
+    for p in "$@"; do printf ' %s' "$p"; done
+    printf '\n'
+}
+
+deadline=$(( $(date +%s) + window ))
+warned=0
+while :; do
+    missing=()
+    for path in "$@"; do
+        is_mount "$path" || missing+=("$path")
+    done
+    [ "${#missing[@]}" -eq 0 ] && break
+
+    if [ "$(date +%s)" -ge "$deadline" ]; then
+        report "refused: still not mounted after ${window}s" "${missing[@]}" >&2
+        printf 'refusing to start: a container bind-mounted here would see the empty\n' >&2
+        printf 'directory underneath and conclude the library is empty — which is how a\n' >&2
+        printf 'scan begins deleting metadata it cannot find.\n' >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [ "$warned" -eq 0 ]; then
+        report "waiting for mount(s) this unit depends on" "${missing[@]}"
+        warned=1
+    fi
+    sleep 1
+done
+
+[ "$warned" -eq 0 ] || printf 'mounted; proceeding.\n'
+exit 0

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Metadata View.md

@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ view really is a mountpoint.
 | Installer | `scripts/media-view.sh` — `plan` / `install` / `verify` / `status` / `reap` |
 | Written by | Jellyfin only (Plex binds read-only); nothing else in the fleet touches it |
 
-Both consumers guard the view with
+Both consumers gate their start on the view with
-`UnitConfigItem=ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/var/lib/media-meta/view`, and
+`ExecStartPre=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh` (it waits
-`scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service jellyfin|plex` calls `media-view.sh
+for the mount, then refuses), and `scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service
-install` + `verify` before it restarts either container.
+jellyfin|plex` calls `media-view.sh install` + `verify` before it restarts
+either container.
 
 | Consumer | Bind | Mode | Why that path |
 |---|---|---|---|
@@ -80,11 +81,20 @@ the defaults are the host values above.
   refuse via `lsblk -dno ROTA` if the upper base lives on the array: an overlay
   whose upper is the spinners is the original problem with extra steps, and it
   silently turns every metadata write back into a seek.
-- **Never mount the view over an unmounted lower.** `RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/entropy`
+- **A container that binds the array must refuse to start until the mount
-  plus the container `ConditionPathIsMountPoint` guards: an empty `lowerdir`
+  answers.** Live 2026-10-31: the array's mount and the media containers raced at
-  presents an *empty library* as truth, and a media scan would then clear the
+  boot, podman resolved the bind against the pre-mount directory, and both
-  database of everything. systemd does not create a mount point, so `install`
+  servers came up blind — Jellyfin read an empty library and began
-  creates `view` itself; without it the mount simply fails.
+  `Removing item, Type: "Season"` by the thousand. Two dependencies people reach
+  for do not work here, both measured on that host: `RequiresMountsFor=` in a
+  **rootless** unit is inert (the user manager cannot order against the system's
+  `mnt-entropy.mount`), and `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` is fail-*dead* — an
+  unmet condition logs `skipped, unmet condition check` with `NRestarts=0` and no
+  start attempt ever follows, so the unit waits for a human. The working guard is
+  `scripts/wait-for-mount.sh` as `ExecStartPre`: it waits out the race, refuses by
+  name after its window, and `Restart=always` carries the unit from there.
+  systemd does not create a mount point, so `install` creates `view` itself;
+  without it the mount simply fails.
 - **Never delete through the view.** A delete writes an overlayfs whiteout
   (`.wh.<name>`) in the upper layer, which hides the array's copy without
   removing it — the file reappears the moment the view is unmounted, and the
@@ -107,7 +117,8 @@ the defaults are the host values above.
 
 | Symptom | Meaning |
 |---|---|
-| `jellyfin.service` / `plex.service` show `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=... was not met` and stay inactive | The view is not mounted. Do not start them anyway: `scripts/media-view.sh install`, then `verify`. |
+| `jellyfin.service` / `plex.service` fail with `refused: still not mounted after 90s: …` | The view or the array is not mounted. Do not start them anyway: `scripts/media-view.sh install`, then `verify`. |
+| Servers answer, library looks empty, Jellyfin logs `Removing item, Type: "Season"` by the thousand | Blind bind — the container started before the mount and bound the pre-mount directory. `podman exec jellyfin ls /data` against `ls /mnt/entropy` is the whole diagnosis; restarting the container re-resolves the bind. |
 | Jellyfin log: `Read-only file system : '/data/Movies/…/movie.nfo'` | The container is binding the raw array, not the view — the quadlet drifted back or the view is gone. `media-view.sh status`. |
 | A folder appears in a media server with artwork/`.nfo` but no video | Ghost metadata from a relayout. `media-view.sh reap`. |
 | `verify` prints `refused: …/view is not a mountpoint` | A plain directory is sitting where the overlay belongs. That is the fail-closed guard working; `install` on the box. |

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -81,13 +81,6 @@ An apply also leaves the release folders it emptied standing where they were —
 hundreds of them at the library root — which is what `sweep` removes, dry-run
 first, from the same journal.
 
-`--batch N` (default 64) makes the journal durable per batch instead of per
-move: N intents are written and fsynced, then those N rename. The rule a crash
-relies on — no rename runs before its intent is on disk — is unchanged, so an
-interrupted apply still replays the batch and resumes with nothing lost. Batch 1
-is the old behaviour; the only reason to name it is debugging, because on the
-spinning array it spends most of a large apply's wall time in fsyncs.
-
 After it lands, both servers need a scan or the change is invisible. [[Plex]] and
 [[Jellyfin]] own the exact requests; two laws hold at this step: `204` is
 acceptance and anything else queued nothing — re-issue the identical request

tests/array_mount_gate.bats

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Seam: a container that binds the entropy array must refuse to start until the
+# thing it binds is actually mounted.
+#
+# Live 2026-10-31, Dankserver: the array's systemd mount STARTED eight seconds
+# before the media containers were created, but a rootless quadlet cannot order
+# itself against a SYSTEM mount unit — `RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/entropy` resolves
+# to nothing in the user manager and is simply inert. So podman resolved the bind
+# against the pre-mount directory (which held one stale subdirectory) and both
+# Jellyfin and Plex came up blind: their library root looked empty, Jellyfin
+# logged thousands of `Removing item, Type: "Season"`, and the array sat at 80 %
+# util doing nothing useful until the host went down. A blind bind is not a
+# cosmetic fault — it is a metadata-deleting machine.
+#
+# The measured fix is `ExecStartPre=<repo>/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh <source>`:
+# it WAITS for the mount and then refuses, so `Restart=always` carries the unit
+# across a slow mount. A `ConditionPathIsMountPoint=` was measured on the same
+# host and is the wrong tool: an unmet condition logs `skipped, unmet condition
+# check` with NRestarts=0 and never a start attempt — the unit stays dead until
+# a human starts it. That is fail-dead, not fail-closed.
+#
+# Tests assert only observable behavior of the gate (exit status and the name it
+# refuses by) and the structural law over the quadlets; never the internals.
+
+load helpers
+
+GATE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/wait-for-mount.sh"
+
+@test "the gate accepts a path that really is a mountpoint" {
+    run "$GATE" -t 2 /proc
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ] || { printf '%s\n' "$output" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+
+@test "a plain directory is refused, and refused BY NAME" {
+    dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/not-a-mount"
+    mkdir "$dir"
+    run "$GATE" -t 1 "$dir"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ] || { printf 'accepted a plain directory\n' >&2; return 1; }
+    [[ "$output" == *"$dir"* ]] || { printf 'refusal did not name the path: %s\n' "$output" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+
+@test "a path that does not exist is refused by name" {
+    run "$GATE" -t 1 "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/does/not/exist"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/does/not/exist"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the gate holds the deadline instead of deciding on one look" {
+    # A single check that failed at the wrong instant is the boot race itself:
+    # the mount lands a second later and the unit is dead anyway. So the window
+    # must be spent waiting, and that is observable from outside as elapsed time.
+    dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/never"
+    mkdir "$dir"
+    start=$SECONDS
+    run "$GATE" -t 4 "$dir"
+    elapsed=$((SECONDS - start))
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [ "$elapsed" -ge 4 ] || { printf 'gave up after %ss, window was 4s\n' "$elapsed" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+
+@test "the gate accepts a mount that arrives during its window" {
+    dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/later"
+    mkdir "$dir"
+    if ! mount --bind /proc "$dir" 2>/dev/null; then
+        skip "creating a mount needs privileges this box does not grant"
+    fi
+    run "$GATE" -t 4 "$dir"
+    umount "$dir" 2>/dev/null || sudo -n umount "$dir" 2>/dev/null || true
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ] || { printf 'gate did not wait for a mount that arrived: %s\n' "$output" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+
+@test "no unit without the gate binds the array or the metadata view" {
+    bad=""
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        sources=$(sed -n 's/^Volume=\([^:]*\):.*/\1/p' "$unit" \
+            | grep -E '^(/mnt/entropy|/var/lib/media-meta/view)$' | sort -u)
+        [ -n "$sources" ] || continue
+        for src in $sources; do
+            grep -q "ExecStartPre=.*wait-for-mount.sh.* $src\b" "$unit" \
+                || bad="$bad$unit binds $src with no start gate"$'\n'
+        done
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT"/dankserver "$REPO_ROOT"/dankclaw "$REPO_ROOT"/frankbook-pro \
+                 -path '*/quadlet/*.container' -not -path '*.AGENTTRASH*')
+    [ -z "$bad" ] || { printf 'blind binds:\n%s' "$bad" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+
+@test "no gated unit keeps the fail-dead ConditionPathIsMountPoint" {
+    bad=""
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        grep -q "wait-for-mount.sh" "$unit" || continue
+        grep -q "ConditionPathIsMountPoint" "$unit" \
+            && bad="$bad$unit: a gate and an unmet-condition skip cannot coexist"$'\n'
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT"/dankserver "$REPO_ROOT"/dankclaw "$REPO_ROOT"/frankbook-pro \
+                 -path '*/quadlet/*.container' -not -path '*.AGENTTRASH*')
+    [ -z "$bad" ] || { printf 'fail-dead conditions:\n%s' "$bad" >&2; return 1; }
+}

tests/media_overlay.bats

@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ UNIT="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/host/systemd/media-meta-view.mount"
 @test "both media servers bind the view and refuse to start without it" {
     for unit in "$JELLY" "$PLEX"; do
         grep -q "^Volume=$MOUNT:" "$unit" || return 1
-        grep -q "^UnitConfigItem=ConditionPathIsMountPoint=$MOUNT$" "$unit" || return 1
+        # The refusal is a start GATE, not a Condition: measured on the host, a
+        # unit whose Condition goes unmet is skipped forever (NRestarts=0, no
+        # start attempt) — fail-dead. The gate waits, then refuses.
+        grep -q "^ExecStartPre=.*wait-for-mount.sh .*$MOUNT" "$unit" || return 1
         # The raw array must no longer be a container source: that bind is what
         # made sidecar sharing impossible (read-only) and metadata slow (seeks).
         ! grep -q '^Volume=/mnt/entropy' "$unit"

tests/media_relayout.bats

@@ -494,65 +494,6 @@ for r in moves:
 PY
 }
 
-# The live pass paid an fsync per move on a spinning array (63 074 of them) and
-# the run took 11 minutes for 58 278 renames. --batch N writes N intents, syncs
-# once, then performs those N moves — the durability rule is unchanged (no move
-# runs before its intent is on disk), only the number of flushes falls.
-@test "a batched apply journals every move and lands the same tree" {
-    plan
-    JOURNAL="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/batched.jsonl"
-    run python3 "$APPLY" apply --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" \
-        --batch 4 --apply
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    local planned journalled
-    planned=$(awk -F'\t' '$1=="move"' "$OUT" | wc -l)
-    journalled=$(grep -c '"op": "move"' "$JOURNAL")
-    [ "$journalled" -eq "$planned" ]
-    run python3 "$APPLY" verify --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL"
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    python3 - "$OUT" <<'PY'
-import os, sys
-moves = [r for r in (l.rstrip("\n").split("\t") for l in open(sys.argv[1]))
-         if r[0] == "move"]
-assert moves, "fixture planned no moves"
-for r in moves:
-    assert os.path.exists(r[2]), f"target missing: {r[2]}"
-    assert not os.path.exists(r[1]), f"source left behind: {r[1]}"
-PY
-}
-
-@test "an apply stopped mid-batch resumes without losing or double-journalling a move" {
-    plan
-    JOURNAL="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/interrupted-batch.jsonl"
-    python3 "$APPLY" apply --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" \
-        --batch 2 --apply > "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/first.log" 2>&1 &
-    local pid=$! i
-    # stop the run the moment a batch of intents is on disk (it may also have
-    # finished already — both outcomes must resume cleanly)
-    for i in $(seq 1 200); do
-        [ -f "$JOURNAL" ] && [ "$(grep -c '"op": "move"' "$JOURNAL" 2>/dev/null || true)" -ge 2 ] && break
-        sleep 0.02
-    done
-    kill -9 "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
-    wait "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
-
-    run python3 "$APPLY" apply --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --batch 2 --apply
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    run python3 "$APPLY" verify --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL"
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    python3 - "$OUT" "$JOURNAL" <<'PY'
-import json, os, sys
-moves = [r for r in (l.rstrip("\n").split("\t") for l in open(sys.argv[1]))
-         if r[0] == "move"]
-journal = [json.loads(l) for l in open(sys.argv[2])]
-dsts = [j["dst"] for j in journal if j.get("op") == "move"]
-assert len(dsts) == len(set(dsts)), "a destination was journalled twice"
-assert len(dsts) == len(moves), f"journalled {len(dsts)} of {len(moves)} moves"
-for r in moves:
-    assert os.path.exists(r[2]) and not os.path.exists(r[1]), r[2]
-PY
-}
-
 @test "rollback puts every file back where the census found it" {
     plan
     apply_plan