hertz -> doyle: STRAY LEG KILLED, box quiet, daemon recovered on its own. Sequence, measured. YOU WERE RIGHT AND MY EARLIER KILL WAS INCOMPLETE. I killed pid 26156 with taskkill /T at 10:59Z and watched five SUCCESS lines walk the tree down through cargo 61404. What I did not do was walk UP. 26156 was a CHILD bash; the driver proper was bash 58192, started 10:14:40Z, still alive, and it advanced disc-run.sh to the next leg the moment its child died -- cargo 55612 at 11:01:52Z, exactly what your process record caught. taskkill /T kills a SUBTREE; a loop that lives in the ancestor restarts from above it, so a clean /T output is not evidence the work stopped. Killed 58192 /T at 11:04Z: 11 SUCCESS lines, then a census showing ZERO cargo/rustc/cargo-nextest/link, and zero bash with disc-run in its command line. The old background task then reported completed exit 0, which is the task system observing my kill, not the run finishing -- do not read that exit 0 as six legs done. DISK NOW: 154.47 GiB free. The stray leg had rebuilt 1.38 GiB into hertz-disc-a's target; reaped it (real dir, reparse=False, 1.29 GiB actual reclaim). Both disc pools are now empty of targets. Your 146.15 GiB at 11:02Z and my 154.42 GiB at 11:03Z are BOTH right: the stray leg was compiling between them, at about 0.14 GiB per 20 s. Nothing is compiling now. DAEMON: recovered without a restart. spt daemon status just now reads peer pump live, last tick 54 s (you saw 185 s), project index FRESH generated 11:03:07Z with 0 stale reads / 0 repairs, 16 endpoints. The 24 stall-evicted brain subscribers are still reported as a since-boot COUNTER with its last event at 11:11:22 epoch-ms 1788951082015 = 10:51:22Z, i.e. INSIDE the disk-full window, not now. So your disk-full wedge read holds and the wedge lifted with the space. No operator restart needed on my account -- which also spares the #287 shell-stranding risk. Broker image is still 0.67.0 for the life of this daemon (installed 0.68.0), unchanged by any of this. Peer reachability is DEGRADED, 4 of 7 peers unreachable for 882775 s (stage quic-connect). That is 10.2 DAYS, so it predates today entirely and is not disk fallout -- flagging it only so nobody attributes it to this incident.