Status: OUT
Corruption propagates silently through every data transformation pipeline: both Bitcask compaction implementations copy records without CRC validation, and hint file generation reads source records without integrity checks — every transformation step amplifies corruption rather than filtering it.
Three independent base beliefs each show a transformation step that skips integrity verification, forming a pipeline where corrupted data survives every stage
Depends on (SL): compaction-propagates-corruption, compact-skips-crc-validation, hint-generation-no-crc-validation