Implements the core design: a mount table published as an atomically-
swapped snapshot; mem/dir/pack/overlay backends; copy-on-write overlay
with copy-up and whiteout deletion; a checksummed append journal;
compaction with exact-duplicate elimination; single-writer/wait-free-
reader concurrency with a structural/content write split; openat2/
Landlock path containment for dir mounts; and load-time pack integrity
validation. Zero required third-party dependencies.
Sanitizer testing (ASan/UBSan) caught and led to fixing a genuine
heap-use-after-free in the snapshot-reclamation path: the textbook
"load pointer, then increment its refcount" pattern left a gap a
concurrent writer could free through. Closed with a small reclaim_gate
rwlock, documented in internal.h and CLAUDE.md since it's a pattern
every refcounted structure in the codebase now follows.
zip/tar import/export backends, recommended in concept.md Section 11,
will not be built — a permanent project decision recorded in CLAUDE.md
since concept.md itself is frozen and cannot be edited to reflect it.
Includes a runnable demo (examples/demo.c, `make demo`) exercising the
library end to end and proving cross-run persistence through the pack
file, plus open-source scaffolding: MIT license, README, CONTRIBUTING,
and a CI workflow running the test suite under ASan/UBSan/TSan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UqJpkdJ6Njnt1pw3CbghzB
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