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 "created": "2026-09-17T15:54:28+00:00",
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   "goal": [
    "Ensure block and undo file flush failures always notify the node to abort",
    "Add unit tests verifying error notifications on block and undo flush failures"
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   "reviewability": [
    "Review is blocked until #35714 is reviewed and merged",
    "The author explicitly requested waiting for #35714 and CI is failing"
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   "agreement": [
    "No discussion yet"
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     "name": "mempool",
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      "Not a member because this change concerns block storage flush error handling."
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     "name": "validation",
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      "P3 because it provides defensive hardening and unit test coverage for block storage flush failures",
      "The invariant holds today and behavior is unchanged, so delay causes no harm"
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  "summary": "This PR couples block and undo file flushing with error notifications inside a new BlockManager::FlushFile helper so that any flush failure consistently emits a flush-error notification. It also introduces unit tests that inject I/O failures to verify notifications fire separately for block files and undo files.",
  "problem": "FlushStateToDisk relies on FlushChainstateBlockFile emitting a flush-error notification before returning failure. While this invariant currently holds, it is not enforced by construction across all flush branches and lacks dedicated unit test coverage.",
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   "author_status": "silent since 2026-07-15"
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   "state": "Paused",
   "label": "Review #35714 first",
   "reason": "The author explicitly requested not to review or merge before #35714, which this PR includes commits from. CI is also failing and the author has been silent for 63 days."
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  "agreement": {
   "state": "Crickets",
   "summary": "No reviews or concept comments yet",
   "reason": "The pull request was opened in draft as a follow-up to #35714 and has received no feedback.",
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    "member": false,
    "evidence": "Touches BlockManager and blockstorage flush logic, completely unrelated to mempool or policy.",
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    "rationale": "Not relevant to the mempool category."
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    "name": "validation",
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    "evidence": "Modifies BlockManager flush methods in src/node/blockstorage.cpp and validation flush error handling.",
    "band": "P3",
    "reason_tag": "test coverage",
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    "rationale": "P3 because this is defensive internal hardening that leaves behavior unchanged while adding valuable unit test coverage for fatal block storage error paths. As the author notes, 'That invariant holds today, but it is not guaranteed by construction', making this an internal refactor to prevent future regressions."
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  "card": "This PR hardens BlockManager flush handling by encapsulating the flush and notification inside FlushFile so every failure path emits a flush-error notification, backed by targeted failure-injection tests. It prevents potential regressions in fatal node shutdown handling when block or undo file writes fail. The PR is an unreviewed draft follow-up to #35714 that the author requested not be reviewed until the base PR lands."
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