`blobs_consistency` probed `blob_exists` once per row and, under
`?deep=true`, read and re-hashed every blob. `backend_consistency`
already reports the same `blob_missing_from_backend` from its
merge-join — so the probe was duplicated work that found strictly less
(a DB walk cannot see backend-only orphans by construction) at N round
-trips instead of one enumeration. Every scheduled sweep paid for it.
All three physical checks move to `backend_consistency`:
* `blob_missing_from_backend` was already there; the duplicate is gone.
* `blob_corrupted` / `blob_unreadable` hook the matched arm of the
merge-join, which holds exactly the key pairs worth reading. Guarded
by `in_range` so a pair past the horizon is not read twice, and
`params.deep` is persisted on a fresh run and read back on resume so
a paused deep scan does not silently continue shallow.
Deep mode belongs there because it is backend work end to end: the
only DB input is the hash. Keeping it in `blobs_consistency` forced
that tenant to carry a backend for one flag.
What remains is the half that needs no backend: `refcount_mismatch`
and its repair. The constructor drops from five parameters to two —
no backend, no storage_entries, no storage_path_fallback — and
`?storage=<name>` / `?deep=true` are now inert there, which the
job description says outright.
`affected_files` is needed by both tenants, so it moves to a shared
`blob_diagnostics` module rather than being copied.
`PROBED_STORAGE_PARAM` moves to `backend_consistency`: it was defined
in `blobs_consistency` and re-exported, which is backwards once the
DB-only tenant has no entry to scope. The create-grace window goes
with the probe — it existed to avoid flagging a blob whose bytes had
landed before its row, and the refcount comparison reads one
consistent snapshot.
Known cost: `backend_consistency` returns `backend_unenumerable` on
Azure and mid-migration, so on those configs missing bytes now go
unreported where the per-row probe caught them. That argues for the
Azure enumeration impl, not for keeping the probe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Edouard Vanbelle
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