Write-back no-steal buffer pool makes the fsync'd WAL load-bearing (M1 was
write-through). Logical WAL with record-granularity page-LSN redo idempotency.
Checkpoint = flush dirty pages, fsync store, advance last_checkpoint_lsn,
reclaim WAL prefix. One-time snapshot.json import only when store absent;
JSON never read as the ongoing store thereafter.
Gates: 33/33 M1 (no regression) + 36/36 M2 — replay parity, torn-tail fuzz
(every byte offset), checkpoint-crash at all 5 phases, torn-page+WAL redo,
legacy-import parity, hebb-survives-crash.
Establish lang/runtime/ as the ONE canonical el runtime (from the active
runtime that carries hebb/emb persistence + the new WAL); repoint the el CI
publish, engram build, elb default, and in-repo build scripts to it; delete
the el-compiler/runtime + lang/releases/ forks; add scripts/check-single-runtime.sh
drift guard.
Fixes a live prod bug: the el CI published el-runtime-c/-h from the LAGGING
el-compiler fork (0 hebb refs), so the shipped soul never persisted Hebbian
edge weights — learned co-activation was wiped on every restart. Publishing
from canonical ships the stranded 'learning that cannot outlive the process'
fix.
WAL storage engine + integrity fixes (DELETE->tombstone + store-layer
protection, safe data-dir default) ride in behind ENGRAM_WAL (default off =
byte-identical to today). Verified: engram elb per-module build clean, WAL
gate 66/66, native smoke ok, drift-guard green.