ReleaseSafe asserts made the clone answer O(store), and serve's 5s deadline raced read + answer + write as one unit -- so a slow answer was cancelled mid-flight and the dead pread surfaced as error.Storage.

Asserts gone (zit verify covers them); the deadline now races read and write separately. Not scale-dependent -- machine speed vs a wall clock.

Stalled peer still cut at 5.0s. test/gate/e2e/dst green. check-in: 94bebf57f1 user: dmestas tags: trunk