--data holds two things that behave nothing alike. Per-repository indexes, built archives and the event store are DERIVED — rebuildable from the stores (0001 5), and therefore private to one node. oltp.db is not: accounts, capability grants, webhooks, praise, mirrors, saved views and CI runs are forge-local truth (0001 8), derivable from nothing.

Interleaved in one directory they could not be deployed differently, so two nodes could not have their own fast local index without also having two account databases that disagree. 256KB of the 4.5GB was the whole obstacle to running more than one node.

--oltp defaults to <data>/oltp.db, so a single-node deployment is unchanged. Every command that opens the OLTP takes it.

Verified: node A creates an account, node B with its own --data and the shared --oltp sees it; node B without the flag reports no accounts, which is the divergence this removes. Both nodes serve at once, each with its own index. check-in: 308751929f user: dmestas tags: trunk