anti-entropy-detects-but-cannot-fully-resolve-divergence

Status: IN

Anti-entropy can precisely locate divergent key ranges via Merkle tree diffs but cannot fully reconcile them: tombstone semantics differ at every layer (empty-bytes sentinel in LSM, preserved-by-default in merge, replication-convergence-dependent in distributed), preventing consistent cross-replica resolution of deleted keys.

Justifications

Detection (Merkle diffs) is precise but resolution is blocked by inconsistent tombstone handling across modules

Depends on (SL): merkle-diff-enables-targeted-key-range-repair, tombstone-lifecycle-fragmented-across-modules

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