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This PR adds only a design doc. It carried a CI fix ported from main's breakage, which allowed pebble's sstable package through the backup import-boundary test. Main has since landed its own fix (#1281), and the merge of main takes main's version of that file, so the PR's diff against main is now the doc alone.

#1278 makes each node migrate TTL anchors only in the groups it leads. Some hash, set, zset and stream metadata is still stored at the route of its raw key, in group L, while its user key belongs to group P. That PR migrates such a row only when the same node leads both L and P.

When different nodes lead them, nothing processes the row:

  • L's leader cannot tell whether P holds the key.
  • P's leader never scans L.
  • Only P's leader, or the TSO, may stamp the rewrite.

Those rows keep their legacy TTL anchors. That blocks Phase 3 of the TTL-inline design, which disables the !redis|ttl| read fallback. The maintainer decided to handle this case in a separate design.

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Option Verdict
A: P's leaders scan foreign legacy groups Rejected. Up to 4 · N · G_L remote page RPCs per tick (20 RPCs and up to 10,240 rows every 30s at N = 5, G_L = 1), and it never converges, because L's copies stay.
A′: A, plus deleting L's copy in the same transaction Rejected. It converges, but it reads every row about N times per pass, and the cross-group 2PC needs the unfinished A0/A0b commit-timestamp work, or Phase D.
B: L's leader probes P and forwards the rewrite Proposed (M2).
B′: B, plus deleting L's copy in the relocation transaction Rejected in favour of a separate single-group delete (M3), which is compliant in every TSO mode and needs no 2PC.
C: evacuate L's shadowed copies Proposed (M3).
D: measure first (background counters, one-shot audit RPC, offline snapshot count) Proposed (M1). Its results decide whether M2 is needed.

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M1 Measure. The group scan reports the legacy-route rows it skips. Each plan's leader counts them per pass, in buckets. The counts are published atomically with the pass's completion epoch and catalog version, and a leadership change invalidates them. The same admin RPC runs a one-shot audit, which holds a read pin at its readTS and is discarded if the catalog or leadership changes mid-run. M1 also merges the delta-compaction handlers and the migration plans into one top-level rotation, so sustained delta load can no longer starve migration.
M1b Absence guard. The apply-time absence condition closes G0 across groups for relocations: OCC at readTS misses a P write below the global snapshot, while the condition rejects the relocation whenever P holds any version. It is a new mutation field, gated on a capability marker that P replicates once every voter and learner supports it; after the marker, a replica lacking the capability cannot join. It applies first to the same-node relocation path of #1278 and needs no cross-leader forwarding.
M2 Probe and forward. L's leader sends batched presence probes to each owner group, concurrently. The probe uses the batched RawLatestCommitTS (key_batch) already on main, so it needs no new RPC. If P holds nothing, L's leader forwards the rewrite in single-shard transactions of at most 32 keys per owner group, each carrying M1b's absence condition. The timestamp is issued by P's leader under A0b, or by the TSO under Phase D. Batches are bound to their catalog version, a relocation always writes, and the cursor advances only over the contiguous settled prefix. M2 stays off unless M1b's marker is in place and A0b or Phase D holds.
M3 Evacuate. L's leader enumerates L's raw page and deletes L's shadowed copies through a new explicit-group delete (a plain Del would be routed to P). It deletes only when the current owner is a group other than L and holds a version, at the delete's route version. It is batched and checkpointed like M2, and its plans share the TTL-inline plan rotation so M2 cannot starve it. It ships with M2, or without M2 if M1 shows M2 is not needed, but never before M1b.
M4 Legacy-route gate for Phase 3. For every group and every plan, the latest snapshot must be post-rollout and zero in every bucket, and all snapshots must share one current catalog version. This is in addition to the TTL-inline design's other prerequisites, such as legacy bare strings.

§5 has a per-tick cost table for every option, and the convergence time at the existing pace: about 16 hours per million rows of one meta family in one legacy group. Retiring the dual-route point-read fallback is out of scope: auxiliary field, member, score and entry rows of pre-routing collections stay in L.

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  • The absence condition (§3 B, §6): whether it should be a pb.Mutation field or a transaction-level key list (open question 3), and its capability-gated rollout as M1b.
  • The HLC/OCC argument in §6, and whether M2 should accept A0b or wait for Phase D, which is opt-in on main today (open question 1).
  • Where the explicit-group delete should live (open question 2).

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This PR only adds a doc, so each lens applies to the design rather than to code:

  1. Data loss: every relocation is OCC at readTS and must find P empty at apply, so a user write that lands below the global snapshot is never overwritten. The guard ships before any evacuation (M1b before M3). A relocation forces its Put. M3 deletes only copies that a distinct owner shadows, inside L's current route, at a pinned route version.
  2. Concurrency: probe/commit races end in OCC or absence conflicts. Probes are answered only by a current leader. Catalog moves repartition or refuse batches. Progress is checkpointed over a contiguous settled prefix. Migration shares one top-level rotation with the delta handlers, and M3 shares the plan rotation with M2. No replica, voter or learner, applies a relocation without the absence check.
  3. Performance: bounded by L's existing page, with no dependence on N. Probes and deletes are batched per owner group, through the existing batched probe (at most 1,025 keys per request, more than one page), and there are no new scans. Option A's N-fold cost is quantified and rejected.
  4. Consistency: no timestamp is issued by a non-leader of the written key's group. The gate binds counts, epoch and catalog version to one pass, and the audit holds one pinned snapshot under one catalog version.
  5. Test coverage: §7 lists the kv, adapter and Jepsen tests the milestones need. That includes a failing G0 reproduction for the absence condition, the learner gate, the M1b-before-M3 ordering, the top-level rotation under delta load, M3's rotation slot, the audit's pin, and Jepsen seeding of a legacy backlog with L and P led by different nodes.

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After #1278, legacy hash, set, zset and stream metadata stored at its
raw-key route in group L is migrated only when the node leading L also
leads the user key's group P. With different leaders the row is never
processed, which blocks Phase 3 of the TTL-inline design.

Propose: measure the backlog (M1); let L's leader check P
authoritatively and forward the rewrite, stamped by P's leader (A0b)
or the TSO (Phase D) (M2); evacuate L's shadowed copies with an
explicit-group delete (M3); gate Phase 3 on the measurement (M4).
Owner-side scans of foreign legacy groups are rejected.

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TTL-inline Phase 3 に関する設計文書を追加しました。異なるグループ間に残るレガシールートのメタデータ行について、計測、移行、削除、完了判定の案と条件を記載しています。

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TestBackupLinksNoLiveClusterCode fails on main since two merges met:
3f097df (#1276) taught internal/backup to read snapshot SST ingest
bundles with github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/v2/sstable, and 5678081
(#1277) forbade every github.com/cockroachdb/pebble package there.

Allow exactly the sstable package. The bundles are files in pebble's
sstable format, and the reader is a file-format dependency, not the
live store the boundary keeps out; the rest of pebble stays forbidden.

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test (ubuntu-latest) failed on TestBackupLinksNoLiveClusterCode in internal/backup, which this docs-only PR doesn't touch. The test is red on main since 927e4bf: #1276 added a pebble sstable reader to internal/backup, and #1277 forbade every pebble import there.

I ported the fix from #1278 (5ac93191) as ea980787. It allows exactly github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/v2/sstable through the boundary and keeps the rest of pebble forbidden. Once main carries the same fix, the commit is a no-op.


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Address review of the cross-leader legacy-row design:
- M2 partitions rewrites by owner group; a multi-group batch is allowed
  only under Phase D, since no single leader can stamp it under A0b.
- Batched, concurrent presence probes per owner group, and a cursor
  checkpoint after each batch, are convergence requirements: sequential
  per-row probes could exhaust the tick on the same page forever.
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- Evacuating metadata does not let the dual-route fallback be retired:
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Address the third review of the cross-leader design:
- a relocation forces the metadata Put when the owner holds nothing, so
  an already-inline legacy row is not a silent no-op (cross-leader and
  same-node paths);
- M3 enumerates L's raw stored page, so rows shadowed by an owner's
  tombstone are found, and deletes only while the current owner is a
  group other than L, bound to the delete's route version;
- M1 does not claim the remote-owner presence split; M2 adds it;
- align the M2 table row with the 32-key chunks and the settled-prefix
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- The group scan reports the legacy-route rows it skips, with owner group
  and reason, so M1 can count them and M2 can probe them.
- M2 batches carry the catalog version their owners were resolved under;
  they are repartitioned before dispatch, or refused by the owner's leader,
  once the catalog moves.
- M1 publishes one snapshot per group and plan, with the pass's catalog
  version, and counts rows deferred by staged visibility.
- M4 requires every group-and-plan snapshot to share one current catalog
  version, and is one Phase 3 condition beside the TTL-inline design's
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- M3 probes in batches per owner group, deletes in explicit-group
  transactions of at most 32 keys, and advances its own per-plan cursor
  only over the contiguous settled prefix, so a page of shadowed rows
  cannot exhaust every tick.
- M4 requires every M1 bucket to be zero, including rows whose owner is
  led locally and already holds a version (not yet evacuated by M3).

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… one-shot audit

- Option A: bound the remote scan cost (4 x N x G_L page RPCs per tick)
  and add A' (delete L's copy in the same transaction): it converges,
  but keeps the N-fold read cost and needs the unfinished cross-group
  2PC timestamp work, or Phase D.
- Option B: RawVersionsVisibleAt is a new RPC; M2 batches are
  single-shard one-phase, which A0b forwards unstamped; Phase D is
  opt-in on main, and A0b is not on main yet.
- Relocations carry an apply-time absence condition. OCC at readTS
  misses a P write below the global snapshot (G0 across groups); the
  condition closes that for relocations on both paths.
- Explain why evacuation stays a separate single-group delete (B').
- Measure-first options: background counters, a one-shot audit RPC, an
  offline snapshot count. M3 ships alone if M2 turns out unnecessary.
- Per-tick cost table across options, plus tests for the absence
  condition, the batched probe, the audit, and Jepsen seeding.

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- The batched presence probe is already on main: RawLatestCommitTS with
  key_batch, answered by VersionsExistAtOrBeforeGroupWithReadFence and
  called through routeHasVersionsAtOrBeforeRemote (the S3 auxiliary owner
  probe). M2 needs no new RawVersionsVisibleAt RPC or proto change for it,
  and the decoder's 1,025-key cap covers a 512-row page.
- State the convergence time at the existing pace (about 16 hours per
  million rows of one meta family in one legacy group) and why
  proxyForwardTimeout never fires before the tick budget.

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Resolve the conflict in internal/backup/import_boundary_test.go by taking
main's version (#1281). It allows the same Pebble sstable package that
this branch's ported CI fix (ea98078) allowed. It also flags a stale
allowance and pins the matching rules in TestForbiddenBackupDep. The PR's
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Codex review on c6d1ffb:
- D2 holds an ActiveTimestampTracker pin at its readTS and binds the whole
  run to one catalog version and one leadership term; a discarded run
  publishes nothing, so it cannot produce a false zero.
- M3's plans join the TTL-inline plan rotation, so a recurring M2 workload
  that uses up every tick's budget cannot starve the evacuation.
- The absence condition's capability gate covers learners as well as
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  replica without the capability is refused (the audit's A7 rule).

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…cally led shard (#1278)

## Summary

The Redis delta compactor's TTL-inline migration
(`adapter/redis_ttl_inline_migrator.go`) has done no work in the server
since a36dac7 ("Limit TTL migration scans to local leaders",
2026-07-22). This PR makes it run on every data group a node leads,
makes the original failure mode fail safe, and adds a behavioural guard
against coordinator wrappers that drop an optional capability.

There were two bugs, one behind the other:

1. **The capability never reached the migrator.** The adapters hold
`WithKeyVizLabel(startupGatedCoordinator{ShardedCoordinator})`. The
migrator asks that value which data groups this node leads
(`LocalLeaderGroupIDs`) and scans only those. The label wrapper answered
`nil` when its inner lacked the method, and the startup gate never
forwarded it, so the migrator planned zero scans.
- **main has since fixed the forwarding** in #1277: both
wrappers now embed a shared `kv.CoordinatorForwarder`. This branch is
merged with main and takes that forwarder.
- What this PR adds on top is the `known` contract (below). With it, a
coordinator without the capability falls back to whole-prefix scans
instead of planning none.
2. **The per-group scan refused every shard but the first.** Codex
review found this. `ShardStore.ScanGroupAt` resolves the requested range
through the route catalog, and a bare anchor prefix such as
`!redis|str|` resolves to the first route only. Every other group got
`ErrExplicitGroupRouteOwnerMismatch`. So on a split catalog, a node
migrated at most the first route's anchors and failed every tick on the
rest. This PR adds `ShardStore.ScanGroupOwnedAt` for it.

### Commits

| Commit | Change |
|---|---|
| `main: reproduce the TTL migration losing local leader groups` |
Failing regression test on the real chain: a `ShardedCoordinator`
leading groups 1 and 2 and following group 3, wrapped as `main.go` wraps
it. |
| `kv, main, adapter: keep local leader groups through the coordinator
wrappers` | The capability becomes `kv.LocalLeaderGroupsCoordinator`
with `LocalLeaderGroupIDs() (ids []uint64, known bool)`. Decorators
forward through `kv.LocalLeaderGroupIDsThrough`, which reports a
coordinator without it as unknown. Unknown falls back to the migrator's
existing whole-prefix `ScanAt` and logs once. A known empty list still
plans nothing. |
| `main: guard every ShardedCoordinator capability through the startup
wrappers` | Behavioural guard test (see the wrapper section). |
| `main: forward LinearizableReadForKey through the startup gate` |
Superseded by main's forwarder in the merge. |
| `adapter: reproduce TTL migration refusing every shard but the first`
| Failing regression test over a **real** `ShardStore` split at `m`
across two groups. |
| `kv, adapter: scan each local leader group's own share of the TTL
anchors` | New `ShardStore.ScanGroupOwnedAt`, used by the migrator's
per-group plans. |
| `kv, adapter: reproduce the group-owned scan's staged, bound and
legacy gaps` / `kv, adapter: bound the group-owned scan, defer staged
routes, serve legacy rows` | Codex round 2: one physical page per call,
staged routes deferred, legacy-route rows served. |
| `Merge main into feature/focused-pascal-dbr58v` | Takes main's
`CoordinatorForwarder`. Moves the `known` contract onto it. Updates
main's chain and plan tests to the new signature. Reworks the
behavioural guard to use main's `shardedMethodsNotForwarded` list. |
| `kv, adapter: reproduce legacy-route rows served against the owner's
state` / `kv: serve legacy-route rows only while the logical owner holds
none` | Codex round 3: legacy stream metadata. Also fixes a key the
owner also holds being served by two groups. |
| `adapter: reproduce TTL-inline ticks starving later scan plans` /
`adapter: rotate TTL-inline scan plans across ticks` | Codex round 3:
plans rotate across ticks that run out of budget. |
| `kv: reproduce the group-owned scan re-reading every wide-column row`
/ `kv: skip the point-read pass for rows the group-owned scan serves` |
Self-review: the scan no longer re-reads each served wide-column row
through the point-read path (see below). |
| `backup: allow pebble's sstable reader through the import boundary` |
CI fix, ported from main's breakage. `TestBackupLinksNoLiveClusterCode`
fails on main since 3f097df (#1276) added a pebble
`sstable` reader to `internal/backup`, while 5678081
(#1277) forbade all of pebble there. The commit allows
exactly the `sstable` package. |

### `ShardStore.ScanGroupOwnedAt`

`ScanGroupOwnedAt(ctx, groupID, start, end, limit, ts) (rows, resume,
err)`:

- **One physical page per call.** Reads up to `limit` rows from the
group's own store, fenced like the other explicit-group reads. `resume`
is the last key the page read when it was full, `nil` once the range is
exhausted. The migrator moves its cursor to `resume`, so a page with no
served rows still advances. Each tick stays within one page per plan.
- **Served rows only.**
- **Owned rows:** keys whose route the group owns, judged by the same
`routeAndGroupForKey` that routes writes.
- **Legacy-route rows:** hash, set, zset and stream rows still stored at
the route of their raw key. These are served only while the logical
owner holds no version of the key at `ts`, as checked by this node as
the owner's leader. That is exactly when a point read falls back to the
legacy route (`routeMissStopsPointFallback`), so the row is the value a
reader sees. The legacy route candidate is `legacyPointRouteKey`, the
one point reads use.
- **Skipped:** copies of ranges the group no longer owns. No key is
rewritten from a stale value.
- **No point-read pass.** Other scans re-read every hash, set and zset
row through the point-read path. That pass now runs once in
`scanRouteAtForwardPage`, after whichever page path ran, so those scans
are unchanged. `ScanGroupOwnedAt` skips it, because every row it serves
already carries the point-read value. This removes:
  - one point read per owned wide-column row;
  - a proxied read per legacy-route row the scan then dropped;
  - a page failure when such a row's owner had no known leader.
- **Staged routes deferred.** A key whose route is under staged
visibility is skipped and picked up on a later pass. An older live copy
must not feed a rewrite while a newer staged copy waits for promotion.
- **Meant for the group's own leader.** If leadership moves between
planning and the scan, the forwarded request is served as `ScanGroupAt`
and may be refused for one tick. The next tick replans.

**Known limit, handled in the separate design PR
#1280.** A legacy row in group L whose user key belongs
to group P, where a different node leads P, is not migrated here.
- **Why:** only P's leader may write the key (the HLC rule), and only
P's leader can tell whether P holds it. Per-group plans never let P's
leader read L.
- **Plan:** #1280 proposes measuring the backlog first.
L's leader then asks P's leader whether P holds the key and forwards the
rewrite, with its timestamp issued by P's leader (A0b) or the TSO (Phase
D). Finally L's shadowed copies are evacuated.
- **History:** main has not migrated these rows since a36dac7. Before
it, every node's whole-prefix scan reached them.
- **Meanwhile:** reads stay correct through the dual-route point-read
fallback and the legacy TTL fallback. Phase 3 (disabling the fallback)
must wait until this case is covered or shown empty.

### Plan rotation

Every plan (one per handler and local leader group) shares the
compactor's per-tick budget. `migrateTTLInlineOnce` now flattens the
plans into one list per tick and starts at the plan after the last one
the previous tick ran, as `compactBackgroundHandlers` already does for
its handlers. A tick that runs out of budget hands the rest of the
rotation to the next tick, so no handler or group starves.

### Design choices

- **`known` on main's forwarder.**
`CoordinatorForwarder.LocalLeaderGroupIDs` returns
`LocalLeaderGroupIDsThrough(Inner)`. Without `known`, any forwarder over
an inner that lacks the capability turns "my inner doesn't say" into
"leads no group", the failure mode of bug (1). This matches main's own
fallbacks for single-group coordinators, such as `IsLeaderForGroup`
falling back to the inner's leadership.
- **Presence check over canonicalization for legacy rows.** With the
owner-holds-nothing rule, the raw row is already the canonical value.
Streams therefore need no value-reading canonicalization, and a key the
owner also holds is migrated once, by the owner's plan.

### Behavior change

- **Production:** each node migrates the TTL anchors of every data group
it leads, in rotation. Each plan scans at most 512 physical rows per
tick (30s) and rewrites at most 32 keys per proposal, under the existing
5s tick budget and 1m timeout backoff. Expect migration writes after
rollout in proportion to the legacy backlog.
- **API:**
- `ShardedCoordinator.LocalLeaderGroupIDs` and
`CoordinatorForwarder.LocalLeaderGroupIDs` now return `([]uint64,
bool)`.
  - New `ShardStore.ScanGroupOwnedAt`.
  - Existing `ShardStore` behaviour is unchanged.
- **Fail-safe:** if a coordinator does not report its groups, the
migrator logs `ttl inline migrator: coordinator does not report local
leader groups; falling back to whole-prefix scans` once, then runs one
`ScanAt` per prefix. That path is not new and is not reached in the
server.

## Wrapper capability guard

Since #1277, both wrappers embed
`kv.CoordinatorForwarder`, which closed every gap in this PR's original
audit:
- `LinearizableReadForKey` on the gate;
- `EnsureMutationsWriteAllowed`, `ObserveForwardedRequests`,
`RaftMembers*`, `PhaseD*` and `ValidateDurableTimestamp` on the label.

The two guard tests check different things:
- **main's `TestAdapterCoordinatorWrappersForwardShardedCapabilities`**
checks that every `ShardedCoordinator` method not listed in
`shardedMethodsNotForwarded` exists on both wrappers with the same
signature.
- **This PR's
`TestStartupWrappersForwardShardedCoordinatorCapabilities`** uses the
same list. It also calls each forwarded method through
`startupGatedCoordinator` and through
`WithKeyVizLabel(startupGatedCoordinator)` against a spy, and requires
the call to reach the spy and return the spy's result and error: 30
methods × 2 wrappers.

That second check catches the bug-(1) class, a method that exists but
probes its inner through an interface that no longer matches. In a
mutation test, I put the forwarder's `LocalLeaderGroupIDs` probe back on
the old `[]uint64` signature. This test, the chain test and the wiring
test all failed; the signature test passed.

## Do nodes need a one-off migration catch-up?

No. The regular loop is the catch-up.

- **Cursors reset on restart.** Migration cursors live only in memory,
so a restart with this fix starts every per-group cursor at the top of
each prefix. The rotation then cycles through every handler and locally
led group.
- **Reads stay correct meanwhile.** The stock server never disables the
legacy `!redis|ttl|` read fallback; `WithRedisLegacyTTLReadFallback` is
not wired to any flag or env var.
- **What stalled and now resumes:**
  - rewriting legacy anchors into the inline format;
  - repairing the `!redis|ttl|` index;
- physically cleaning up expired TTL-indexed legacy collections. This
one affects storage, not correctness.
- **Caveats:**
- Time elapsed since 2026-07-22 says nothing about migration progress.
Count from this rollout before considering Phase 3 (disabling the
fallback).
- On split catalogs, the whole-prefix `ScanAt` reaches only the first
route for string, HLL, TTL-index and list anchors. So anchors outside
the first route may never have been migrated at all, not just since
2026-07-22. This PR covers them.
- The different-leader legacy case above stays unmigrated, and Phase 3
must wait for #1280.
- Nothing signals that a full pass has finished; I suggest adding that
as a follow-up.

## Test evidence

- **Each fix was preceded by a failing test:**
- The wrapper chain loses the groups: `expected []uint64{0x1, 0x2}`,
`actual []uint64(nil)`.
- The split store refuses group 2: `explicit group read does not own the
requested key range`, for all eight prefixes.
  - The staged-route key was returned.
  - A scan read 7 rows for `limit=2`.
  - A legacy-route hash row was dropped.
- A legacy stream meta row was dropped, and the compactor left its TTL
out (`ExpireAt:0x0`).
  - A hash key the owner also held was served by both groups.
  - 24 budget-limited ticks scanned the first of 24 plans 24 times.
  - Three owned hash rows cost three point reads.
- A legacy hash row whose owner had no leader failed the page with
`leader not found`.
- **Mutation checks:** each of these fails its targeted tests:
- dropping the owner presence check, or narrowing the legacy candidate
back to wide-column keys;
  - ignoring "cannot answer";
  - always starting the rotation at plan 0;
- putting the forwarder's `LocalLeaderGroupIDs` probe back on the old
signature.
- **Race suites:** `go test -race -count=1 ./adapter/... ./kv/... .` on
`a73a7c0a`: adapter ok (233s), kv ok (14s), root ok (46s).
- **Lint:** golangci-lint v2.9.0, CI's version, with main's config (now
including `cyclop`): `0 issues`.
- **End to end:** one process hosting groups 1 and 2 split at `m`, with
a legacy string plus a legacy `!redis|ttl|` anchor seeded on each side.

| Binary | Group 1 key | Group 2 key | "does not own" errors | compactor
pass failures |
  |---|---|---|---|---|
| PR at `35f698e` (before the split-store fix) | migrated | still legacy
after 100s | 4 | 3 |
| PR at `a73a7c0a` (merged with main) | migrated | migrated (both within
30s) | 0 | 0 |

`TTL` and `GET` were correct throughout. An earlier single-group run (3
nodes) showed base `184351ae` still legacy after 100s, while this PR
migrated within 30s.
- **Jepsen:** on a 3-node cluster running `a73a7c0a`, the same workloads
as CI with `--time-limit 60 --rate 10 --concurrency 10`:
- `elastickv.redis-workload`: `{:valid? true}`, 603 ok / 0 fail / 2
info.
- `elastickv.redis-zset-safety-workload`: `{:valid? true}`, 586 ok / 0
fail / 2 info.
  - Zero migrator, ownership or panic lines in the node logs.
- These workloads write only inline-format data, so the migrator scans
each group concurrently with them but has nothing to rewrite. The
end-to-end runs cover the rewrite.

## Self-review (five lenses)

1. **Data loss:**
- Migration writes are OCC transactions at the scan's `readTS`, with a
commit timestamp from `kv.NextTimestampAfterThrough` on the dispatching
group leader (`dispatchCompaction`). A user write after `readTS`
conflicts rather than being overwritten.
- The scan hands the migrator only rows whose value is the one a reader
sees: owned rows, and legacy-route rows the owner holds no version of.
Never stale copies of moved ranges, never live copies of a route under
staged visibility, never a legacy copy the owner has superseded or
deleted.
   - Rotation changes only the order of plans.
   - No change to Raft apply, snapshots, Pebble sync or retention.
2. **Concurrency / distributed:**
- `LocalLeaderGroupIDs` is a point-in-time snapshot. Each key is still
checked with `IsLeaderForKey` before dispatch.
- The owner presence check runs only on the owner's leader, behind the
same lease fence point reads use. Elsewhere the row is skipped.
- A leadership change between the check and the dispatch is caught by
`IsLeaderForKey` and OCC.
- The rotation cursor is guarded by `stateMu`. Concurrent `SyncOnce`
calls only shift where a tick starts.
   - The one-time warning uses `sync.Once`. Race tests pass.
3. **Performance:**
- One physical page per scan call, plus one in-memory route lookup per
row. A legacy-route row adds one local version probe.
- No per-row point reads; the shared page path keeps its point-read pass
for every other caller.
- Rotation adds no reads; it builds handlers × local-groups plan structs
per tick.
   - Followers scan nothing. The Redis request path is unchanged.
4. **Data consistency:**
- The page and the presence check both read at `readTS`. The presence
rule mirrors the point-read fallback exactly, including tombstones.
   - Ownership uses the same resolution as writes.
- The new code issues no timestamps and does not touch the route
catalog.
- Keeping known-empty distinct from unknown keeps followers from
scanning.
- TLA+ anchors (`kv/coordinator.go`, `kv/sharded_coordinator.go`): the
change adds a capability interface and helper and changes
`LocalLeaderGroupIDs`' return. Nothing in the HLC-4, renewal-cadence,
group-selection, fail-closed or OCC checklist changed, so no spec update
is needed.
5. **Test coverage:**
- Regression tests for every bug and review finding: wrapper chain, real
split `ShardStore`, staged routes, physical bound, legacy-route rows
(hash and stream, three owner states, owner led elsewhere), legacy
stream migration end to end in the compactor, plan rotation, no point
reads for served rows.
   - The behavioural guard test and mutation checks.
   - End-to-end runs on real binaries and the Redis Jepsen workloads.

## Risk

Low to moderate. This turns back on a background writer that has been
dormant in production for about three months, and on split catalogs it
reaches parts of the keyspace it never reached before. Its writes are
OCC-guarded and rate-bounded. Watch Raft proposal load on group leaders
during the first pass after rollout.

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…fore M3

Codex review on f6bb7a0:
- SyncOnce runs the delta-compaction handlers first and migrates only with
  budget left, so sustained delta load starves every TTL-inline plan, M1's
  counting included. M1 merges both loops into one top-level rotation.
- The absence condition becomes its own milestone (M1b), applied to the
  same-node relocation path independently of cross-leader forwarding. M3
  ships after M1b, never before, since it deletes L's copy after relocations
  the same-node path already performs.

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