tombstone-sentinel-is-a-forbidden-value

Status: IN

Storing `b"__BITCASK_TOMBSTONE__"` as a legitimate value in `log-structured-hash-table` causes silent data loss on next recovery, as `_scan_segment` interprets it as a delete — the sentinel is an implicit API constraint with no validation

Source: entries/2026/05/29/topic-tombstone-encoding.md

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