V3 Phase 14 S8 Closure

Date: 2026-04-20 Status: draft — pending 14A final pass + architect + tester sign-off Purpose: the final P14 closure statement per v3-phase-14-s8-final-bounded-close.md §10

1. What P14 Now Owns

After S4-S7, P14 closes one bounded single-active-master internal topology/control-plane truth loop for the accepted topology:

1. Observation institution (S4): heartbeats and inventory flow through ObservationHost into a synthesized ClusterSnapshot + SupportabilityReport. Observation never mints authority. Partial / conflicting / duplicate / unknown / expired inventory becomes explicit VolumeUnsupportedEvidence; pending state is distinct from unsupported; per-volume isolation holds.

2. Durable authority institution (S5): current authority line is durable, single-owner, atomically written, and reloaded synchronously at publisher boot. One record per volume. Corrupt records per-volume-fail-closed and surface as structured ReloadSkips. Process lock is exclusive and idempotent. Store never mints authority (boundary-guard test).

3. Convergence institution (S6): desired assignments have bounded fate — confirmed (cleared), publish-not-observed (stuck-evidence, no re-mint, no churn), or superseded (by newer publisher line or different decision). Passive retry only; no active re-drive. Normal observation lag does NOT supersede. Per-volume retry clock; no global state.

4. Real-route restart closure (S7): the full ObservationHost → TopologyController → Publisher(reloaded) → VolumeBridge → VolumeReplicaAdapter composes correctly at restart. Restart recomputes desired from durable authority + fresh observation (no durable desired store). Old-slot per-replica state is NOT revived from the store (S5 one-record-per-volume rule); live-route old-slot delivery via bridge is rejected by the adapter's monotonic guard. Stale observation cannot move authority backward (4 simulation shapes). Unsupported topology after restart records evidence, not silent idle. L2 process smoke proves real-binary restart × 2 preserves durable truth with no backward mint, via pinned structured JSON.

5. Accepted topology (S8 §4): single active master; multiple volumes; three replica slots per volume on distinct servers; one primary + two candidates; publisher-owned Epoch / EndpointVersion; durable current line; passive convergence; real VolumeBridge into adapter.

2. What P14 Explicitly Does NOT Own

1. CSI lifecycle (Create/Delete/Publish/Node*).
2. iSCSI / NVMe-oF frontend data path.
3. External volume management API (REST / gRPC).
4. Security / auth (authn, CHAP, encryption).
5. Operator diagnostics surface (dashboards, alerts, /metrics).
6. Operator workflow (drain, planned failover, manual reassign, supervised rebuild).
7. V2 ↔ V3 migration and coexistence.
8. Deployment / packaging / hardening (systemd, container, backup of durable store).
9. Performance / soak / release-hardening claims.
10. Multi-master / leader election / distributed authority (explicit non-goal, not just deferred).
11. V2 HandleAssignment / promote / demote semantics (explicit non-goal).
12. Heartbeat-as-authority (explicit non-goal).

Every item 1–9 is mapped to a P15 track in v3-phase-14-s8-p15-handoff.md §2. Items 10–12 are permanent non-goals.

3. Evidence At L0 / L1 / L2 / L3

Full matrix: v3-phase-14-s8-evidence-matrix.md §3. Summary of coverage:

Sixteen claims; fifteen PROVEN at their target level; one (Claim 15) PARTIAL — adapter-package follow-up per §5 below. L3 is classification-only at P14 (v3-phase-14-s8-v2-scenario-classification.md) — L3 entries are scenario SHAPES, not executed evidence. Runnable L3 is P15 Final Gate (Cluster Validation Agent). Claims 6, 10, and 12 have NARROWED L2 cells where the subprocess binary cannot carry the full claim surface; each is handed off to the correct canonical P15 track.

4. Test Baseline (2026-04-20)

$ go test ./core/engine ./core/adapter ./core/authority ./cmd/sparrow -count=1
ok  github.com/seaweedfs/seaweed-block/core/engine     0.016s
ok  github.com/seaweedfs/seaweed-block/core/adapter    2.344s
ok  github.com/seaweedfs/seaweed-block/core/authority  4.569s
ok  github.com/seaweedfs/seaweed-block/cmd/sparrow     2.264s

$ go test ./... -count=1
(14 packages, all PASS)

193 Go tests across the P14 scope. L2 subprocess smoke (TestS7Process_RealSubprocessRestartSmoke) spawns a real sparrow binary twice on the same store directory and asserts the pinned JSON pass-line schema.

5. Residual Risks

No S8-blocking correctness residuals. One adapter-owned quantitative fence proof (Claim 15) remains as P14-internal follow-up per row 11 of the handoff table — not a P15 track, not an S8 gate. Zero backward-authority-mint residuals. Zero silent-idle residuals.

6. P15 Track Owners

Handoff complete per v3-phase-14-s8-p15-handoff.md, aligned to canonical v3-phase-15-product-plan.md §4. Every P14 residual product gap has a named P15 track and a concrete first-proof gate:

• T1 Frontend + Data Path Contract (includes subprocess heartbeat ingress)
• T2 CSI / External Lifecycle Surface
• T3 External Control API
• T4 Security And Auth Posture
• T5 Diagnostics And Explainability
• T6 Operator Workflow
• T7 V2/V3 Coexistence And Migration
• T8 Deployment / Upgrade / Release Hardening
• Final Gate — Cluster Validation Agent

7. Final P14 Claim

P14 has closed one bounded single-active-master internal topology/control-plane truth loop for the accepted topology set. Observation is system-fed; authority is durable, single-owner, and restart-recovered; convergence has bounded fate; the real VolumeBridge → adapter route re-anchors across restart without backward mint or old-slot revival.

P14 has NOT closed CSI, external API, frontend data path, migration, security, deployment, performance, or production readiness. Those nine tracks are handed off to P15 with concrete first-proof gates. Multi-master, V2 HandleAssignment/promote/demote semantics, and heartbeat-as-authority are explicit non-goals — not deferrals.

8. Sign-off State

• Architect — pending review of this matrix + handoff.
• Tester — pending reproducibility check (commands in §4).
• 14A final targeted pass — pending (scope in v3-phase-14a-checklist.md).

S8 cannot be accepted until all three sign off. After that, P14 is closed and the next active work is P15 T1 Frontend.