chore(release): prepare 1.0.0-rc.3

chore: adjudicate 19 bare dead_code allows across six leaf crates (#6161 )
backlog#1823 step 10, batch 1 of the repo-wide item-allow sweep. 227 bare #[allow(dead_code)] remain across 83 files; this takes the 19 in utils, notify, checksums, policy, keystone and trusted-proxies, which are small enough to verify end to end. Removing all 19 first, before writing any reason, matters: 8 of them suppress nothing. Every allow in utils, one in policy and three in notify sit on items that are publicly reachable, so dead_code never applied to them — the same shape as the swift module and kms's dek.rs. Writing a reason onto a no-op allow would dress noise up as considered judgement, so those are simply deleted. Three items are genuinely dead and go with their allows: notify's new_target_id_set, the AWS metadata fetcher's get_metadata_token, and policy's empty `pub struct Value;`, none of which is referenced anywhere in the tree. The remaining eight keep an allow, now saying why the item survives rather than who calls it. Two are exercised only by their own crate's tests (checksums' MD5_HEADER_NAME, policy's is_match_as_pattern_prefix). Four are fields written but never read back: keystone's verify_ssl, parsed from config after the reqwest client is already built; keystone's client handle, which keeps the Keystone client alive for the mapper's lifetime; the AWS IMDS endpoint, kept beside the client while requests build their own URLs; and notify's rules_map, whose own comment retains it for snapshot-time judgements no code performs. checksums' Md5 needed the most care. Crc32, Sha256 and seven others each have an arm in ChecksumAlgorithm::into_impl, and Md5 has none, which reads like a missing algorithm. It is not: ChecksumAlgorithm has no Md5 variant at all. S3 carries Content-MD5 as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family, and this impl exists so both paths share the Checksum trait. The reason records that, so the next reader does not re-derive it. One measurement note for anyone continuing this sweep: cargo does not re-emit warnings for cached compilations, so a per-crate loop of `cargo check -p <crate>` under-reports. checksums showed zero that way while actually carrying three. Touch the sources and check the crates in one invocation, then attribute by path. Verification: the six crates are warning-free under cargo check --tests; clippy --lib --tests -D warnings clean; cargo nextest run 1096 passed; make pre-commit exit 0. Ref rustfs/backlog#1823 (step 10).
2026-08-17 10:17:55 +00:00 · 2026-08-17 11:58:25 +08:00 · 2026-08-17 11:34:47 +08:00 · 2026-08-17 11:32:23 +08:00 · 2026-08-17 10:45:24 +08:00 · 2026-08-17 08:26:23 +08:00
175 changed files with 14829 additions and 2362 deletions
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
      short_sha: ${{ steps.check.outputs.short_sha }}
      is_prerelease: ${{ steps.check.outputs.is_prerelease }}
      create_latest: ${{ steps.check.outputs.create_latest }}
+      source_ref: ${{ steps.check.outputs.source_ref }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ jobs:
          short_sha=""
          is_prerelease=false
          create_latest=false
+          source_ref="$GITHUB_SHA"

          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "workflow_run" ]]; then
            # Triggered by build workflow completion
@@ -137,6 +139,7 @@ jobs:
            # Extract version info from commit message or use commit SHA
            # Use Git to generate consistent short SHA (ensures uniqueness like build.yml)
            short_sha=$(git rev-parse --short "$HEAD_SHA")
+            source_ref="$HEAD_SHA"

            # Determine build type based on triggering workflow event and ref
            triggering_event="$TRIGGERING_EVENT"
@@ -261,6 +264,23 @@ jobs:
                echo "⚠️  Only release versions (latest, v1.0.0, 1.0.0) and prereleases (v1.0.0-alpha1, 1.0.0-beta2) are supported"
                ;;
            esac
+
+            if [[ "$should_build" == true && "$input_version" != "latest" ]]; then
+              tag_ref="refs/tags/$input_version"
+              if ! git ls-remote --exit-code origin "$tag_ref" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                if [[ "$input_version" == v* ]]; then
+                  tag_ref="refs/tags/${input_version#v}"
+                else
+                  tag_ref="refs/tags/v$input_version"
+                fi
+              fi
+
+              if ! git ls-remote --exit-code origin "$tag_ref" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                echo "❌ Release tag not found for Docker build: $input_version"
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              source_ref="$tag_ref"
+            fi
          fi

          {
@@ -271,6 +291,7 @@ jobs:
            echo "short_sha=$short_sha"
            echo "is_prerelease=$is_prerelease"
            echo "create_latest=$create_latest"
+            echo "source_ref=$source_ref"
          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

          echo "🐳 Docker Build Summary:"
@@ -281,6 +302,7 @@ jobs:
          echo "  - Short SHA: $short_sha"
          echo "  - Is prerelease: $is_prerelease"
          echo "  - Create latest: $create_latest"
+          echo "  - Source ref: $source_ref"

  # Build multi-arch Docker images
  # Strategy: Build images using pre-built binaries from dl.rustfs.com
@@ -308,6 +330,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
+          ref: ${{ needs.build-check.outputs.source_ref }}

      - name: Login to Docker Hub
        uses: docker/login-action@c94ce9fb468520275223c153574b00df6fe4bcc9 # v3
@@ -397,7 +420,8 @@ jobs:
          LABELS="org.opencontainers.image.title=RustFS"
          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.description=RustFS distributed object storage system"
          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.version=$VERSION"
-          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.revision=${{ github.sha }}"
+          SOURCE_REVISION="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.revision=$SOURCE_REVISION"
          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.source=${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}"
          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.created=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')"
          LABELS="$LABELS,org.opencontainers.image.build-type=$BUILD_TYPE"
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ checksum = "312c1ea69e5fe9966e0029fb95aca8790100b85aff4f0d3b00a9337c74069a9c"
 dependencies = [
 "bigdecimal",
 "bon",
+ "crc32fast",
 "digest 0.11.3",
 "log",
 "miniz_oxide 0.9.1",
@@ -289,9 +290,11 @@ dependencies = [
 "serde",
 "serde_bytes",
 "serde_json",
+ "snap",
 "strum",
 "thiserror 2.0.20",
 "uuid",
+ "zstd",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -3761,7 +3764,7 @@ checksum = "d0881ea181b1df73ff77ffaaf9c7544ecc11e82fba9b5f27b262a3c73a332555"

 [[package]]
 name = "e2e_test"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
 "astral-tokio-tar",
@@ -9090,7 +9093,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "aes-gcm",
 "anyhow",
@@ -9200,6 +9203,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "serial_test",
 "sha2 0.11.0",
 "shadow-rs",
+ "snap",
 "socket2",
 "subtle",
 "sysinfo",
@@ -9227,7 +9231,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-audit"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "const-str",
@@ -9250,7 +9254,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-checksums"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "base64-simd",
 "bytes",
@@ -9266,7 +9270,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-common"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "chrono",
 "hotpath",
@@ -9284,7 +9288,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-concurrency"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "insta",
@@ -9297,7 +9301,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-config"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "const-str",
 "hotpath",
@@ -9307,7 +9311,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-credentials"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "base64-simd",
 "hmac 0.13.0",
@@ -9321,7 +9325,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-crypto"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "aes-gcm",
 "argon2",
@@ -9342,7 +9346,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-data-usage"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "rmp-serde",
@@ -9352,7 +9356,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-ecstore"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "async-channel",
@@ -9491,7 +9495,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-extension-schema"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "serde",
@@ -9501,7 +9505,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-filemeta"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "byteorder",
@@ -9528,7 +9532,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-heal"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "base64 0.23.1",
@@ -9559,7 +9563,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-iam"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "async-trait",
@@ -9600,7 +9604,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-io-core"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "hotpath",
@@ -9613,7 +9617,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-io-metrics"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "criterion",
 "hotpath",
@@ -9677,7 +9681,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-keystone"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "futures",
@@ -9704,7 +9708,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-kms"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "aes-gcm",
 "anyhow",
@@ -9753,7 +9757,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-lifecycle"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "hotpath",
@@ -9776,7 +9780,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-lock"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "compact_str",
@@ -9799,7 +9803,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-log-analyzer"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "chrono",
 "flate2",
@@ -9818,7 +9822,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-madmin"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "humantime",
@@ -9833,7 +9837,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-notify"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "async-trait",
@@ -9868,7 +9872,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-object-capacity"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "criterion",
 "futures",
@@ -9888,7 +9892,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-object-data-cache"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "criterion",
@@ -9905,7 +9909,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-obs"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "chrono",
 "crossbeam-channel",
@@ -9960,7 +9964,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-policy"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "base64-simd",
@@ -9991,7 +9995,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-protocols"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "astral-tokio-tar",
 "async-compression",
@@ -10053,7 +10057,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-protos"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "flatbuffers",
 "hotpath",
@@ -10077,7 +10081,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-replication"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "byteorder",
 "bytes",
@@ -10095,7 +10099,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-rio"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "aes-gcm",
 "arc-swap",
@@ -10133,7 +10137,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-rio-v2"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "aes-gcm",
 "bytes",
@@ -10156,7 +10160,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-s3-ops"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "rustfs-s3-types",
@@ -10164,7 +10168,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-s3-types"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "serde",
@@ -10173,7 +10177,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-s3select-api"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "bytes",
@@ -10203,7 +10207,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-s3select-query"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-recursion",
 "async-trait",
@@ -10222,7 +10226,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-scanner"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "bytes",
@@ -10262,7 +10266,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-security-governance"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "thiserror 2.0.20",
@@ -10270,7 +10274,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-signer"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "base64-simd",
 "bytes",
@@ -10288,7 +10292,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-storage-api"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "hotpath",
@@ -10303,7 +10307,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-targets"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "async-nats",
@@ -10357,7 +10361,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-test-utils"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "hotpath",
 "rustfs-data-usage",
@@ -10373,7 +10377,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-tls-runtime"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "arc-swap",
 "hotpath",
@@ -10394,7 +10398,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-trusted-proxies"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "async-trait",
 "axum",
@@ -10431,7 +10435,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-utils"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "base64-simd",
 "blake2",
@@ -10473,7 +10477,7 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "rustfs-zip"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 dependencies = [
 "astral-tokio-tar",
 "async-compression",
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ edition = "2024"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs"
 rust-version = "1.97.1"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.2"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.3"
 homepage = "https://rustfs.com"
 description = "RustFS is a high-performance distributed object storage software built using Rust, one of the most popular languages worldwide. "
 keywords = ["RustFS", "Minio", "object-storage", "filesystem", "s3"]
@@ -86,52 +86,52 @@ redundant_clone = "warn"

 [workspace.dependencies]
 # RustFS Internal Crates
-rustfs = { path = "./rustfs", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-heal = { path = "crates/heal", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-audit = { path = "crates/audit", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-checksums = { path = "crates/checksums", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-common = { path = "crates/common", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-data-usage = { path = "crates/data-usage", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-config = { path = "./crates/config", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-concurrency = { path = "./crates/concurrency", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-credentials = { path = "crates/credentials", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-crypto = { path = "crates/crypto", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-ecstore = { path = "crates/ecstore", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-filemeta = { path = "crates/filemeta", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-iam = { path = "crates/iam", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-keystone = { path = "crates/keystone", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-lifecycle = { path = "crates/lifecycle", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-kms = { path = "crates/kms", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-lock = { path = "crates/lock", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-madmin = { path = "crates/madmin", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-notify = { path = "crates/notify", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-io-metrics = { path = "crates/io-metrics", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-io-core = { path = "crates/io-core", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-object-capacity = { path = "crates/object-capacity", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-object-data-cache = { path = "crates/object-data-cache", version = "1.0.0-rc.2", default-features = false }
-rustfs-log-analyzer = { path = "crates/log-analyzer", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-obs = { path = "crates/obs", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-policy = { path = "crates/policy", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-protos = { path = "crates/protos", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-protocols = { path = "crates/protocols", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-replication = { path = "crates/replication", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-rio = { path = "crates/rio", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-rio-v2 = { path = "crates/rio-v2", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-s3-types = { path = "crates/s3-types", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-s3-ops = { path = "crates/s3-ops", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-s3select-api = { path = "crates/s3select-api", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-s3select-query = { path = "crates/s3select-query", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-scanner = { path = "crates/scanner", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-security-governance = { path = "crates/security-governance", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-extension-schema = { path = "crates/extension-schema", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-signer = { path = "crates/signer", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-storage-api = { path = "crates/storage-api", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-trusted-proxies = { path = "crates/trusted-proxies", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-targets = { path = "crates/targets", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-test-utils = { path = "crates/test-utils", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-tls-runtime = { path = "crates/tls-runtime", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-utils = { path = "crates/utils", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
-rustfs-zip = { path = "./crates/zip", version = "1.0.0-rc.2" }
+rustfs = { path = "./rustfs", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-heal = { path = "crates/heal", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-audit = { path = "crates/audit", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-checksums = { path = "crates/checksums", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-common = { path = "crates/common", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-data-usage = { path = "crates/data-usage", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-config = { path = "./crates/config", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-concurrency = { path = "./crates/concurrency", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-credentials = { path = "crates/credentials", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-crypto = { path = "crates/crypto", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-ecstore = { path = "crates/ecstore", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-filemeta = { path = "crates/filemeta", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-iam = { path = "crates/iam", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-keystone = { path = "crates/keystone", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-lifecycle = { path = "crates/lifecycle", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-kms = { path = "crates/kms", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-lock = { path = "crates/lock", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-madmin = { path = "crates/madmin", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-notify = { path = "crates/notify", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-io-metrics = { path = "crates/io-metrics", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-io-core = { path = "crates/io-core", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-object-capacity = { path = "crates/object-capacity", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-object-data-cache = { path = "crates/object-data-cache", version = "1.0.0-rc.3", default-features = false }
+rustfs-log-analyzer = { path = "crates/log-analyzer", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-obs = { path = "crates/obs", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-policy = { path = "crates/policy", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-protos = { path = "crates/protos", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-protocols = { path = "crates/protocols", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-replication = { path = "crates/replication", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-rio = { path = "crates/rio", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-rio-v2 = { path = "crates/rio-v2", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-s3-types = { path = "crates/s3-types", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-s3-ops = { path = "crates/s3-ops", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-s3select-api = { path = "crates/s3select-api", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-s3select-query = { path = "crates/s3select-query", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-scanner = { path = "crates/scanner", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-security-governance = { path = "crates/security-governance", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-extension-schema = { path = "crates/extension-schema", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-signer = { path = "crates/signer", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-storage-api = { path = "crates/storage-api", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-trusted-proxies = { path = "crates/trusted-proxies", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-targets = { path = "crates/targets", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-test-utils = { path = "crates/test-utils", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-tls-runtime = { path = "crates/tls-runtime", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-utils = { path = "crates/utils", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }
+rustfs-zip = { path = "./crates/zip", version = "1.0.0-rc.3" }

 # Async Runtime and Networking
 async-channel = "2.5.0"
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ tower = { version = "0.5.3" }
 tower-http = { version = "0.7.0" }

 # Serialization and Data Formats
-apache-avro = "0.22.0"
+apache-avro = { version = "0.22.0", features = ["snappy", "zstandard"] }
 bytes = { version = "1.12.1" }
 bytesize = "2.7.0"
 byteorder = "1.5.0"
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ chown -R 10001:10001 data logs
 docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:latest

 # Using specific version
-docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-rc.2
+docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-rc.3
 ```

 If you use [podman](https://github.com/containers/podman) instead of docker, you can install the RustFS with the below command
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ chown -R 10001:10001 data logs
 docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:latest

 # 使用指定版本运行
-docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-rc.2
+docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 -v $(pwd)/data:/data -v $(pwd)/logs:/logs rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-rc.3
 ```

 如果您通过绑定挂载启用 TLS 证书目录，也请用同样方式准备该目录：
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
-#![allow(dead_code)]

 use base64_simd::STANDARD;

@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ pub const XXHASH_3_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash3";
 pub const XXHASH_64_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash64";
 pub const XXHASH_128_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash128";

-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 wire name, resolved by header_name() below and asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) static MD5_HEADER_NAME: &str = "content-md5";

 pub const CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS_IN_PRIORITY_ORDER: [&str; 5] =
@@ -476,13 +476,19 @@ impl Checksum for Xxhash64 {
    }
 }

-#[allow(dead_code)]
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 is not a ChecksumAlgorithm variant and has no arm in into_impl: S3 carries it as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family. This impl exists so the two paths share the Checksum trait, and is asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct Md5 {
    hasher: md5::Md5,
 }

-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 is not a ChecksumAlgorithm variant and has no arm in into_impl: S3 carries it as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family. This impl exists so the two paths share the Checksum trait, and is asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 impl Md5 {
    fn update(&mut self, bytes: &[u8]) {
        use md5::Digest;
@@ -76,6 +76,18 @@ const SOURCE_MTIME_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = ["x-rustfs-source-mtime", "x-minio-sourc
 const SOURCE_REPLICATION_REQUEST_HEADERS: [&str; 2] =
    ["x-rustfs-source-replication-request", "x-minio-source-replication-request"];
 const SOURCE_ETAG_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = ["x-rustfs-source-etag", "x-minio-source-etag"];
+const SOURCE_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = [
+    "x-rustfs-source-replication-tagging-timestamp",
+    "x-minio-source-replication-tagging-timestamp",
+];
+const SOURCE_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = [
+    "x-rustfs-source-replication-retention-timestamp",
+    "x-minio-source-replication-retention-timestamp",
+];
+const SOURCE_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = [
+    "x-rustfs-source-replication-legalhold-timestamp",
+    "x-minio-source-replication-legalhold-timestamp",
+];
 const RESERVED_BUCKET_PREFIXES: [&str; 3] = ["xn--", "sthree-", "amzn-s3-demo-"];
 const RESERVED_BUCKET_SUFFIXES: [&str; 6] = ["-s3alias", "--ol-s3", ".mrap", "--x-s3", "--table-s3", "-an"];

@@ -118,6 +130,25 @@ pub enum FaultAction {
    WrongEtag,
 }

+/// Replication LWW timestamp headers observed on a request, journaled so
+/// sender-side tests can assert what a real target would receive.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct ReplicationTimestampHeaders {
+    pub tagging: Option<String>,
+    pub retention: Option<String>,
+    pub legalhold: Option<String>,
+}
+
+impl ReplicationTimestampHeaders {
+    fn from_headers(headers: &HeaderMap) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            tagging: header_value(headers, &SOURCE_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS).map(bounded_journal_value),
+            retention: header_value(headers, &SOURCE_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS).map(bounded_journal_value),
+            legalhold: header_value(headers, &SOURCE_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP_HEADERS).map(bounded_journal_value),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Credential-free request metadata retained for deterministic assertions.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct RequestRecord {
@@ -131,6 +162,7 @@ pub struct RequestRecord {
    pub part_number: Option<i32>,
    pub content_length: Option<u64>,
    pub consumed_bytes: Option<usize>,
+    pub replication_timestamps: ReplicationTimestampHeaders,
    pub fault: Option<FaultAction>,
 }

@@ -536,7 +568,15 @@ impl S3Access for FaultAccess {
            .get(CONTENT_LENGTH)
            .and_then(|value| value.to_str().ok())
            .and_then(|value| value.parse().ok());
-        let fault = record_request(&self.control, operation, context.method().clone(), parsed, content_length);
+        let replication_timestamps = ReplicationTimestampHeaders::from_headers(context.headers());
+        let fault = record_request(
+            &self.control,
+            operation,
+            context.method().clone(),
+            parsed,
+            content_length,
+            replication_timestamps,
+        );
        if let Some(RequestFault {
            action: FaultAction::Status(status),
            ..
@@ -589,6 +629,7 @@ fn record_request(
    method: Method,
    parsed: ParsedRequest,
    content_length: Option<u64>,
+    replication_timestamps: ReplicationTimestampHeaders,
 ) -> Option<RequestFault> {
    let mut state = lock(control);
    let action = parsed
@@ -613,6 +654,7 @@ fn record_request(
        part_number: parsed.part_number,
        content_length,
        consumed_bytes: None,
+        replication_timestamps,
        fault: action.clone(),
    });
    action.map(|action| RequestFault { sequence, action })
@@ -1699,6 +1741,52 @@ mod tests {
            .await?)
    }

+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn journals_replication_timestamp_headers() -> Result<(), BoxError> {
+        let target = FakeS3Target::start().await?;
+        target.create_bucket("target-bucket");
+        let client = client(&target);
+
+        client
+            .put_object()
+            .bucket("target-bucket")
+            .key("plain")
+            .body(ByteStream::from_static(b"plain"))
+            .send()
+            .await?;
+        client
+            .put_object()
+            .bucket("target-bucket")
+            .key("stamped")
+            .body(ByteStream::from_static(b"stamped"))
+            .customize()
+            .map_request(move |mut request| {
+                let headers = request.headers_mut();
+                headers.insert("x-rustfs-source-replication-tagging-timestamp", "2026-01-02T03:04:05Z");
+                headers.insert("x-minio-source-replication-retention-timestamp", "2026-01-02T03:04:06Z");
+                headers.insert("x-rustfs-source-replication-legalhold-timestamp", "2026-01-02T03:04:07Z");
+                Ok::<_, std::convert::Infallible>(request)
+            })
+            .send()
+            .await?;
+
+        let requests = target.requests();
+        let plain = requests
+            .iter()
+            .find(|record| record.operation == Operation::PutObject && record.key.as_deref() == Some("plain"))
+            .expect("plain PUT must be journaled");
+        assert_eq!(plain.replication_timestamps, ReplicationTimestampHeaders::default());
+
+        let stamped = requests
+            .iter()
+            .find(|record| record.operation == Operation::PutObject && record.key.as_deref() == Some("stamped"))
+            .expect("stamped PUT must be journaled");
+        assert_eq!(stamped.replication_timestamps.tagging.as_deref(), Some("2026-01-02T03:04:05Z"));
+        assert_eq!(stamped.replication_timestamps.retention.as_deref(), Some("2026-01-02T03:04:06Z"));
+        assert_eq!(stamped.replication_timestamps.legalhold.as_deref(), Some("2026-01-02T03:04:07Z"));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
    macro_rules! assert_sdk_error {
        ($error:expr, $status:expr, $code:expr) => {{
            let error = &$error;
@@ -2985,6 +3073,7 @@ mod tests {
                        part_number: None,
                    },
                    Some(0),
+                    ReplicationTimestampHeaders::default(),
                );
            }
            let records = lock(&control).requests.clone();
@@ -3006,6 +3095,7 @@ mod tests {
                    part_number: None,
                },
                None,
+                ReplicationTimestampHeaders::default(),
            );
            {
                let bounded_records = lock(&bounded_control);
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ pub mod bucket {
        pub use crate::bucket::metadata_sys::ConfigWriteLockProbe;
        pub use crate::bucket::metadata_sys::{
            BucketMetadataMutationGuard, BucketMetadataSys, ObjectLockConfigState, acquire_bucket_metadata_transaction_lock,
-            capture_bucket_metadata_incarnation, delete, delete_if_incarnation, get, get_accelerate_config, get_bucket_policy,
+            acquire_bucket_metadata_transaction_lock_for_incarnation, capture_bucket_metadata_incarnation, delete,
+            delete_if_incarnation, delete_under_transaction_lock, get, get_accelerate_config, get_bucket_policy,
            get_bucket_policy_raw, get_bucket_targets_config, get_config_from_disk, get_cors_config, get_durability_config,
            get_global_bucket_metadata_sys, get_lifecycle_config, get_logging_config, get_notification_config,
            get_object_lock_config, get_object_lock_config_state, get_public_access_block_config, get_quota_config,
@@ -184,17 +185,18 @@ pub mod bucket {
            mrf_backlog_observability_snapshot,
        };
        pub use crate::bucket::replication::{
-            BucketReplicationResyncStatus, BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats, DeleteReplicationConfigSnapshot,
-            DeletedObjectReplicationInfo, DurableMrfBacklog, DynReplicationPool, MrfOpKind, MrfReplicateEntry,
-            MustReplicateOptions, ObjectOpts, REMOTE_TARGET_CAPABILITY_CONTRACT_VERSION, REMOTE_TARGET_UNSUPPORTED_FIELDS,
-            REMOTE_TARGET_WRITABLE_FIELDS, REPLICATE_INCOMING_DELETE, REPLICATION_CAPABILITY_CONTRACT_VERSION,
-            REPLICATION_READ_ONLY_HISTORICAL_FIELDS, REPLICATION_WRITABLE_FIELDS, ReplicateDecision, ReplicateObjectInfo,
-            ReplicationBatchAdmission, ReplicationConfig, ReplicationConfigStructureError, ReplicationConfigurationExt,
-            ReplicationDeleteScheduleInput, ReplicationDeleteStateSource, ReplicationHealQueueResult, ReplicationObjectBridge,
-            ReplicationObjectIO, ReplicationOperation, ReplicationPoolTrait, ReplicationPriority, ReplicationQueueAdmission,
-            ReplicationScannerBridge, ReplicationState, ReplicationStats, ReplicationStatusType, ReplicationStorage,
-            ReplicationTargetValidationError, ReplicationType, ResyncOpts, ResyncStatusType, RuntimeReplicationTargetBacklog,
-            TargetReplicationResyncStatus, VersionPurgeStatusType, commit_force_delete_intent, complete_force_delete_intent,
+            BucketReplicationResyncStatus, BucketReplicationStat, BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats,
+            DeleteReplicationConfigSnapshot, DeletedObjectReplicationInfo, DurableMrfBacklog, DynReplicationPool, InQueueMetric,
+            MrfOpKind, MrfReplicateEntry, MustReplicateOptions, ObjectOpts, REMOTE_TARGET_CAPABILITY_CONTRACT_VERSION,
+            REMOTE_TARGET_UNSUPPORTED_FIELDS, REMOTE_TARGET_WRITABLE_FIELDS, REPLICATE_INCOMING_DELETE,
+            REPLICATION_CAPABILITY_CONTRACT_VERSION, REPLICATION_READ_ONLY_HISTORICAL_FIELDS, REPLICATION_WRITABLE_FIELDS,
+            ReplicateDecision, ReplicateObjectInfo, ReplicationBatchAdmission, ReplicationConfig,
+            ReplicationConfigStructureError, ReplicationConfigurationExt, ReplicationDeleteScheduleInput,
+            ReplicationDeleteStateSource, ReplicationHealQueueResult, ReplicationObjectBridge, ReplicationObjectIO,
+            ReplicationOperation, ReplicationPoolTrait, ReplicationPriority, ReplicationQueueAdmission, ReplicationScannerBridge,
+            ReplicationState, ReplicationStats, ReplicationStatusType, ReplicationStorage, ReplicationTargetValidationError,
+            ReplicationType, ResyncOpts, ResyncStatusType, RuntimeReplicationTargetBacklog, TargetReplicationResyncStatus,
+            VersionPurgeStatusType, XferStats, commit_force_delete_intent, complete_force_delete_intent,
            delete_replication_state_from_config, delete_replication_version_id, get_global_replication_pool,
            get_global_replication_stats, init_background_replication, invalid_replication_config_status_field,
            persist_force_delete_intent, read_durable_mrf_backlog, replication_state_to_filemeta, replication_status_to_filemeta,
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ use rustfs_utils::http::{
 };
 use rustfs_utils::http::{
    SUFFIX_FORCE_DELETE, SUFFIX_SOURCE_DELETEMARKER, SUFFIX_SOURCE_ETAG, SUFFIX_SOURCE_MTIME, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_CHECK,
-    SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_REQUEST, SUFFIX_SOURCE_VERSION_ID, insert_header,
+    SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_REQUEST,
+    SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_SOURCE_VERSION_ID,
+    insert_header,
 };
 use rustls_pki_types::pem::PemObject;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -80,7 +82,6 @@ use tracing::warn;
 use url::Url;
 use uuid::Uuid;

-const DEFAULT_HEALTH_CHECK_RELOAD_DURATION: Duration = Duration::from_secs(30 * 60);
 const MAX_CONCURRENT_TARGET_HEALTH_CHECKS: usize = 16;
 const REDACTED_CREDENTIAL: &str = "<redacted>";

@@ -1476,9 +1477,12 @@ impl Default for AdvancedPutOptions {
            replication_status: ReplicationStatusType::Pending,
            source_mtime: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
            replication_request: false,
-            retention_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-            tagging_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
-            legalhold_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
+            // UNIX_EPOCH means "never modified": header() must not emit a
+            // timestamp header for it, otherwise a receiver would treat an
+            // unset category as a modification made right now.
+            retention_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH,
+            tagging_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH,
+            legalhold_timestamp: OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH,
            replication_validity_check: false,
        }
    }
@@ -1675,6 +1679,16 @@ impl PutObjectOptions {
            );
        }

+        for (suffix, timestamp) in [
+            (SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP, self.internal.tagging_timestamp),
+            (SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP, self.internal.retention_timestamp),
+            (SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP, self.internal.legalhold_timestamp),
+        ] {
+            if timestamp.unix_timestamp() != 0 {
+                insert_header(&mut header, suffix, timestamp.format(&Rfc3339).unwrap_or_default());
+            }
+        }
+
        if self.internal.replication_request {
            insert_header(&mut header, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_REQUEST, "true");
        }
@@ -2842,6 +2856,57 @@ mod tests {
        );
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn put_object_headers_carry_replication_timestamp_headers() {
+        // MinIO receivers resolve concurrent tag/retention/legal-hold edits by
+        // last-writer-wins on these headers (object-api-options.go parses them
+        // as RFC3339); a replica without them loses every conflict resolution.
+        let mut opts = PutObjectOptions::default();
+        opts.internal.replication_request = true;
+        let tagging = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(1_700_000_001).expect("valid timestamp");
+        let retention = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(1_700_000_002).expect("valid timestamp");
+        let legalhold = OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(1_700_000_003).expect("valid timestamp");
+        opts.internal.tagging_timestamp = tagging;
+        opts.internal.retention_timestamp = retention;
+        opts.internal.legalhold_timestamp = legalhold;
+
+        let header = opts.header();
+        for (suffix, expected) in [
+            ("source-replication-tagging-timestamp", tagging),
+            ("source-replication-retention-timestamp", retention),
+            ("source-replication-legalhold-timestamp", legalhold),
+        ] {
+            assert_eq!(
+                rustfs_utils::http::get_header(&header, suffix).as_deref(),
+                Some(expected.format(&Rfc3339).expect("RFC3339 timestamp").as_str()),
+                "replication put requests must carry the {suffix} header"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn put_object_headers_omit_unset_replication_timestamps() {
+        // UNIX_EPOCH means "never modified on the source"; sending it would
+        // make the receiver treat an unset category as a fresh modification.
+        let mut opts = PutObjectOptions::default();
+        opts.internal.replication_request = true;
+        opts.internal.tagging_timestamp = OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH;
+        opts.internal.retention_timestamp = OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH;
+        opts.internal.legalhold_timestamp = OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH;
+
+        let header = opts.header();
+        for suffix in [
+            "source-replication-tagging-timestamp",
+            "source-replication-retention-timestamp",
+            "source-replication-legalhold-timestamp",
+        ] {
+            assert!(
+                rustfs_utils::http::get_header(&header, suffix).is_none(),
+                "unset {suffix} must not be sent to replication targets"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn get_remote_target_client_internal_rejects_loopback_endpoint() {
        let sys = BucketTargetSys::default();
@@ -126,11 +126,23 @@ const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_EXPIRED_DETECTED: &str = "lifecycle_expired_detected";
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_NOT_ENQUEUED: &str = "lifecycle_not_enqueued";
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_DELETE_DISPATCHED: &str = "lifecycle_delete_dispatched";
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_DELETE_COMPLETED: &str = "lifecycle_delete_completed";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_TIER_AUDIT: &str = "lifecycle_tier_audit";
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_TIER_OPERATION_FAILED: &str = "lifecycle_tier_operation_failed";
 const EVENT_LIFECYCLE_DELETE_FAILED: &str = "lifecycle_delete_failed";

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub type TimeFn = Arc<dyn Fn() -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>> + Send + Sync + 'static>;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub type TraceFn =
    Arc<dyn Fn(String, HashMap<String, String>) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>> + Send + Sync + 'static>;
 pub type ExpiryOpType = Box<dyn ExpiryOp + Send + Sync + 'static>;
@@ -140,9 +152,21 @@ static TIER_FREE_VERSION_RECOVERY_STARTED: OnceLock<()> = OnceLock::new();
 static MANUAL_TRANSITION_JOB_RECOVERY_STARTED: OnceLock<()> = OnceLock::new();

 pub const AMZ_OBJECT_TAGGING: &str = "X-Amz-Tagging";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub const AMZ_TAG_COUNT: &str = "x-amz-tagging-count";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub const AMZ_TAG_DIRECTIVE: &str = "X-Amz-Tagging-Directive";
 pub const AMZ_ENCRYPTION_AES: &str = "AES256";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub const AMZ_ENCRYPTION_KMS: &str = "aws:kms";

 pub const ERR_INVALID_STORAGECLASS: &str = "invalid tier.";
@@ -280,6 +304,10 @@ impl LifecycleSys {
        }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub fn trace(oi: &ObjectInfo) -> TraceFn {
        let bucket = oi.bucket.clone();
        let name = oi.name.clone();
@@ -570,6 +598,10 @@ async fn delete_free_version_remote_object(
    Ok(())
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 async fn delete_free_version_remote_object_then<T, F, Fut>(
    oi: &ObjectInfo,
    tier_config_mgr: &Arc<RwLock<TierConfigMgr>>,
@@ -2868,6 +2900,10 @@ fn stale_upload_default_due(initiated: OffsetDateTime, default_expiry: StdDurati
    initiated + time::Duration::seconds(default_expiry.as_secs() as i64)
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 async fn stale_upload_current_size(set: &Arc<SetDisks>, metadata: &HashMap<String, String>, upload_dir: &str) -> Option<usize> {
    stale_upload_current_size_with_opts(set, metadata, upload_dir, false).await
 }
@@ -3352,6 +3388,10 @@ pub async fn validate_transition_tier(lc: &BucketLifecycleConfiguration) -> Resu
    Ok(())
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn mark_delete_opts_skip_decommissioned_on_remote_success(opts: &mut ObjectOptions, remote_delete_succeeded: bool) {
    if remote_delete_succeeded {
        opts.skip_decommissioned = true;
@@ -4339,6 +4379,10 @@ pub async fn expire_transitioned_object(
    Ok(dobj)
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn gen_transition_objname(bucket: &str) -> Result<String, Error> {
    let us = Uuid::new_v4().to_string();
    let mut hasher = Sha256::new();
@@ -4373,6 +4417,10 @@ pub async fn transition_object(api: Arc<ECStore>, oi: &ObjectInfo, lae: LcAuditE
    result
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn audit_tier_actions(_tier: &str, bytes: i64) -> TimeFn {
    let tier = _tier.to_string();
    Arc::new(move || {
@@ -4391,6 +4439,10 @@ pub fn audit_tier_actions(_tier: &str, bytes: i64) -> TimeFn {
    })
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn get_transitioned_object_reader(
    bucket: &str,
    object: &str,
@@ -5145,6 +5197,10 @@ async fn lifecycle_delete_config_snapshot(api: &ECStore, oi: &ObjectInfo) -> Res
    ReplicationObjectBridge::delete_request_config(api, &oi.bucket).await
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn apply_lifecycle_action(event: &lifecycle::Event, src: &LcEventSrc, oi: &ObjectInfo) -> bool {
    let mut success = false;
    match event.action {
@@ -7422,6 +7478,10 @@ mod tests {
    // process environment while `env::set_var`/`env::remove_var` is active.
    // SAFETY: keep this note adjacent to the allowance for the repository guard.
    #[allow(unsafe_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "transition-queue env fixture kept for tests that scope those vars; no test uses it today (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn with_transition_queue_env_async<F, Fut>(capacity: Option<&str>, timeout_ms: Option<&str>, test_fn: F)
    where
        F: FnOnce() -> Fut,
@@ -759,6 +759,10 @@ pub struct ManualTransitionWorkerResultRecord {
 }

 impl ManualTransitionWorkerResultRecord {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub fn new(job_id: Uuid, task_key: impl Into<String>, result: ManualTransitionWorkerResult) -> Self {
        Self::new_with_reason(job_id, task_key, result, None)
    }
@@ -1257,6 +1261,10 @@ pub(crate) async fn save_manual_transition_task_if_absent(
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn load_manual_transition_task_record(
    api: Arc<ECStore>,
    job_id: Uuid,
@@ -1320,6 +1328,10 @@ async fn scan_manual_transition_task_journal(api: Arc<ECStore>, job_id: Uuid) ->
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn load_manual_transition_worker_result_stats(
    api: Arc<ECStore>,
    job_id: Uuid,
@@ -1455,6 +1467,10 @@ async fn scan_manual_transition_worker_result_journal(
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn reconcile_manual_transition_worker_results(
    api: Arc<ECStore>,
    job_id: Uuid,
@@ -15,25 +15,35 @@
 use rustfs_common::metrics::IlmAction;

 use crate::bucket::lifecycle::lifecycle::ObjectOpts;
+use crate::bucket::replication::ReplicationLifecycleBridge;
 pub(crate) use crate::bucket::replication::ReplicationStatusType;
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) use crate::bucket::replication::VersionPurgeStatusType;
 pub(crate) use crate::bucket::replication::{
    DeleteReplicationConfigSnapshot, ReplicationObjectBridge, replication_state_to_filemeta,
 };
-use crate::bucket::replication::{ReplicationLifecycleBridge, ReplicationLifecycleConfig};
 use crate::storage_api_contracts::object::DeletedObject;

-pub(crate) type LifecycleReplicationConfig = ReplicationLifecycleConfig;
-
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) fn has_pending_version_purge(obj: &ObjectOpts) -> bool {
    obj.version_purge_status.is_pending()
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) fn has_pending_object_replication(obj: &ObjectOpts) -> bool {
    replication_status_blocks_lifecycle(&obj.replication_status)
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) fn has_pending_lifecycle_replication(obj: &ObjectOpts) -> bool {
    has_pending_object_replication(obj) || has_pending_version_purge(obj)
 }
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@

 use std::collections::HashMap;

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) fn decode_tags_to_map(tags: &str) -> HashMap<String, String> {
    crate::bucket::tagging::decode_tags_to_map(tags)
 }
@@ -331,6 +331,10 @@ where
    persist_tier_delete_journal_entry(api, &committed).await
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn abort_tier_delete_journal_entry<S>(api: Arc<S>, je: &Jentry) -> std::io::Result<()>
 where
    S: ObjectOperations<
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ struct RecoveryCursor {
    object: String,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn recover_tier_free_versions(
    api: Arc<ECStore>,
    limit: usize,
@@ -385,6 +385,10 @@ impl ExpiryOp for Jentry {
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier(obj_name: &str, rv_id: &str, tier_name: &str) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
    let result = delete_object_from_remote_tier_raw(obj_name, rv_id, tier_name).await;
    if let Err(err) = &result
@@ -395,6 +399,10 @@ pub async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier(obj_name: &str, rv_id: &str, tier_na
    result
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier_raw(obj_name: &str, rv_id: &str, tier_name: &str) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
    #[cfg(test)]
    if let Some(result) = run_remote_tier_delete_test_hook(obj_name, rv_id, tier_name) {
@@ -405,6 +413,10 @@ async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier_raw(obj_name: &str, rv_id: &str, tier_na
    delete_object_from_remote_tier_raw_with_manager(obj_name, rv_id, tier_name, &tier_config_mgr).await
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier_raw_with_manager(
    obj_name: &str,
    rv_id: &str,
@@ -485,6 +497,10 @@ pub enum RemoteTierDeleteOutcome {
    AlreadyRemoved,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn delete_object_from_remote_tier_idempotent(
    obj_name: &str,
    rv_id: &str,
@@ -50,8 +50,16 @@ pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, TransitionTransactionError>;
 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
 pub enum TransitionTransactionError {
    #[error("transition transaction already exists")]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    AlreadyExists,
    #[error("transition transaction is not found")]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity tier/lifecycle entry point that this port never wired (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    NotFound,
    #[error("transition transaction is corrupt: {0}")]
    Corrupt(&'static str),
@@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ struct ConfigWriteLockProbeState {
 static CONFIG_WRITE_LOCK_PROBES: std::sync::OnceLock<StdMutex<Vec<Arc<ConfigWriteLockProbeState>>>> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();

 #[cfg(any(test, feature = "test-util"))]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "installed by tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)")]
 pub struct ConfigWriteLockProbe {
    state: Arc<ConfigWriteLockProbeState>,
 }

 #[cfg(any(test, feature = "test-util"))]
 impl ConfigWriteLockProbe {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "installed by tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn install(bucket: &str) -> Self {
        let state = Arc::new(ConfigWriteLockProbeState {
            bucket: bucket.to_string(),
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ impl ConfigWriteLockProbe {
        Self { state }
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "installed by tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)")]
    pub async fn wait_until_attempted(&self) {
        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(30), self.state.arrived.notified())
            .await
@@ -656,6 +659,16 @@ pub async fn update_under_transaction_lock(
    update_under_config_write_guard(get_bucket_metadata_sys()?, guard, config_file, data).await
 }

+/// Clear one config file while the caller holds this bucket's transaction lock.
+pub async fn delete_under_transaction_lock(
+    guard: &BucketMetadataMutationGuard,
+    bucket: &str,
+    config_file: &str,
+) -> Result<OffsetDateTime> {
+    guard.ensure_valid(bucket)?;
+    delete_under_config_write_guard(get_bucket_metadata_sys()?, guard, config_file).await
+}
+
 pub async fn update_quota_if_incarnation(
    bucket: &str,
    data: Vec<u8>,
@@ -795,6 +808,14 @@ pub async fn acquire_bucket_metadata_transaction_lock(bucket: &str) -> Result<Bu
    acquire_config_write_guard(get_bucket_metadata_sys()?, bucket).await
 }

+/// Acquire the bucket transaction lock only if its incarnation still matches.
+pub async fn acquire_bucket_metadata_transaction_lock_for_incarnation(
+    bucket: &str,
+    expected_incarnation_id: Uuid,
+) -> Result<BucketMetadataMutationGuard> {
+    acquire_config_write_guard_for_incarnation(get_bucket_metadata_sys()?, bucket, Some(expected_incarnation_id)).await
+}
+
 pub(crate) async fn acquire_bucket_metadata_transaction_lock_in(
    ctx: &crate::runtime::instance::InstanceContext,
    bucket: &str,
@@ -872,6 +893,10 @@ pub async fn get_bucket_policy_raw(bucket: &str) -> Result<(String, OffsetDateTi
    bucket_meta_sys.get_bucket_policy_raw(bucket).await
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "free-function facade over the live BucketMetadataSys::get_bucket_acl_config; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn get_bucket_acl_config(bucket: &str) -> Result<(String, OffsetDateTime)> {
    let bucket_meta_sys_lock = get_bucket_metadata_sys()?;
    let bucket_meta_sys = bucket_meta_sys_lock.read().await;
@@ -1086,6 +1111,10 @@ pub async fn get_config_from_disk(bucket: &str) -> Result<BucketMetadata> {
    bucket_meta_sys.get_config_from_disk(bucket).await
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "ambient-facade variant of the live created_at_in; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub async fn created_at(bucket: &str) -> Result<OffsetDateTime> {
    let bucket_meta_sys_lock = get_bucket_metadata_sys()?;
    let bucket_meta_sys = bucket_meta_sys_lock.read().await;
@@ -1599,6 +1628,7 @@ impl BucketMetadataSys {
    /// [`Self::update`], with the payload computed from the loaded metadata
    /// instead of supplied up front. Loads through this system's own store so
    /// the read and the persisted write target the same instance.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    async fn update_config_with<F>(&self, bucket: &str, config_file: &str, mutate: F) -> Result<OffsetDateTime>
    where
        F: FnOnce(&BucketMetadata) -> Result<Vec<u8>> + Send,
@@ -1703,6 +1733,7 @@ impl BucketMetadataSys {
    /// A miss is never published as an authoritative default, and a snapshot
    /// read before delete plus same-name recreation cannot replace the new
    /// generation.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(crate) async fn reload_from_store(&self, bucket: &str) -> Result<()> {
        if is_meta_bucketname(bucket) {
            return Err(Error::other("errInvalidArgument"));
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.

 // #730: bucket subsystems still contain staged ECStore migration code.
-#![allow(dead_code)]

 pub mod bandwidth;
 pub mod bucket_target_sys;
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ pub fn add_years(dt: OffsetDateTime, years: i32) -> OffsetDateTime {

 /// Check if an object has legal hold enabled.
 /// Returns true if legal hold is ON.
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn has_legal_hold(user_defined: &std::collections::HashMap<String, String>) -> bool {
    let lhold = objectlock::get_object_legalhold_meta(user_defined);
    matches!(lhold.status, Some(ref st) if st.as_str() == ObjectLockLegalHoldStatus::ON)
@@ -151,6 +152,7 @@ fn has_legal_hold(user_defined: &std::collections::HashMap<String, String>) -> b
 /// # Returns
 /// * `true` if the object is locked (cannot be deleted/modified)
 /// * `false` if the object is not locked
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn is_object_locked_by_metadata(user_defined: &std::collections::HashMap<String, String>, is_delete_marker: bool) -> bool {
    // Delete markers are never locked
    if is_delete_marker {
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ pub enum QuotaError {
 }

 #[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub struct QuotaErrorResponse {
    #[serde(rename = "Code")]
    pub code: String,
@@ -208,6 +209,7 @@ pub struct QuotaErrorResponse {
 }

 impl QuotaErrorResponse {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn new(quota_error: &QuotaError, request_id: &str, host_id: &str) -> Self {
        match quota_error {
            QuotaError::QuotaExceeded { .. } => Self {
@@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ async fn save_ledger_locked(
 }

 #[cfg(any(test, feature = "test-util"))]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn fail_next_quota_ledger_save_for_test() {
    FAIL_NEXT_LEDGER_SAVE.store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst);
 }
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ pub use replication_filemeta_boundary::{
 pub(crate) use replication_filemeta_boundary::{
    replication_state_from_filemeta, replication_status_from_filemeta, version_purge_status_from_filemeta,
 };
-pub(crate) use replication_lifecycle_bridge::{ReplicationLifecycleBridge, ReplicationLifecycleConfig};
+pub(crate) use replication_lifecycle_bridge::ReplicationLifecycleBridge;
 pub(crate) use replication_migration_bridge::ReplicationMigrationBridge;
 pub use replication_object_bridge::ReplicationObjectBridge;
 pub use replication_object_config::{DeleteReplicationConfigSnapshot, ReplicationConfig};
@@ -81,6 +81,6 @@ pub use replication_queue_boundary::{
 pub use replication_resync_boundary::{BucketReplicationResyncStatus, ResyncOpts, TargetReplicationResyncStatus};
 pub use replication_scanner_bridge::ReplicationScannerBridge;
 pub use replication_state::{ReplicationStats, RuntimeReplicationTargetBacklog};
-pub use replication_stats_boundary::{BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats};
+pub use replication_stats_boundary::{BucketReplicationStat, BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats, InQueueMetric, XferStats};
 pub use replication_storage_boundary::{ReplicationObjectIO, ReplicationStorage};
 pub(crate) use replication_target_config_bridge::ReplicationTargetConfigBridge;
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ impl ReplicationConfigStore {
        com::read_config_limited(api, file, max_bytes).await
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) async fn read_no_lock<S>(api: Arc<S>, file: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>>
    where
        S: ReplicationObjectIO,
@@ -24,15 +24,27 @@ use super::replication_storage_boundary::{
    DeletedObject, ObjectInfo, ObjectOptions, ObjectToDelete, deleted_object_for_replication,
 };

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) type ReplicationLifecycleConfig = ReplicationConfig;

 pub(crate) struct ReplicationLifecycleBridge;

 impl ReplicationLifecycleBridge {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn new_config(config: ReplicationConfiguration) -> ReplicationLifecycleConfig {
        ReplicationConfig::new(Some(config), None)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn has_pending_version_purge(
        config: &ReplicationLifecycleConfig,
        object_name: &str,
@@ -45,6 +57,10 @@ impl ReplicationLifecycleBridge {
                .is_some_and(|config| config.has_active_rules(object_name, true))
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) async fn check_delete_replication(
        bucket: &str,
        object: &ObjectToDelete,
@@ -54,6 +70,10 @@ impl ReplicationLifecycleBridge {
        check_replicate_delete(bucket, object, source, opts, None).await
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn version_delete_replication_state(decision: &ReplicateDecision) -> ReplicationState {
        let pending_status = decision.pending_status();
        ReplicationState {
@@ -19,17 +19,33 @@ use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use super::replication_error_boundary::Result;
 use crate::bucket::msgp_decode;

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) struct ReplicationMsgpCodec;

 impl ReplicationMsgpCodec {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn read_ext8_time<R: Read>(rd: &mut R) -> Result<OffsetDateTime> {
        msgp_decode::read_msgp_ext8_time(rd)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn skip_value<R: Read>(rd: &mut R) -> Result<()> {
        msgp_decode::skip_msgp_value(rd)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn write_time<W: Write>(wr: &mut W, time: OffsetDateTime) -> Result<()> {
        msgp_decode::write_msgp_time(wr, time)
    }
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ impl ReplicationObjectBridge {
        load_delete_request_config_in(ctx, bucket).await
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) async fn delete_config_snapshot_in(
        ctx: &ReplicationInstanceContext,
        bucket: &str,
@@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ pub(crate) async fn load_delete_replication_config(
    delete_snapshot_from_metadata(ReplicationMetadataStore::delete_metadata(bucket).await?)
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) async fn load_delete_replication_config_in(
    ctx: &ReplicationInstanceContext,
    bucket: &str,
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ impl DurableMrfBacklogTracker {
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn durable_mrf_backlog_tracker_from_entries(entries: &[MrfReplicateEntry]) -> DurableMrfBacklogTracker {
    let mut tracker = DurableMrfBacklogTracker {
        available: true,
@@ -712,6 +716,10 @@ pub struct ReplicationPool<S: ReplicationStorage> {

    // MRF worker lifecycle
    mrf_worker_cancellations: Mutex<Vec<CancellationToken>>,
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    mrf_stop_tx: Sender<()>,

    // Worker size tracking
@@ -940,6 +948,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Resizes worker priority and counts
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub async fn resize_worker_priority(
        &self,
        pri: ReplicationPriority,
@@ -1180,6 +1192,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Queues an MRF save operation
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn queue_mrf_save(&self, entry: MrfReplicateEntry) {
        let _ = self.queue_mrf_save_admission(entry, "mrf_worker").await;
    }
@@ -1651,6 +1667,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Worker function for handling regular replication operations
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn add_worker(
        &self,
        mut rx: Receiver<ReplicationOperation>,
@@ -1664,6 +1684,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Worker function for handling large object replication operations
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn add_large_worker(
        &self,
        mut rx: Receiver<ReplicationOperation>,
@@ -1678,6 +1702,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Worker function for handling MRF (Most Recent Failures) operations
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn add_mrf_worker(
        &self,
        mut rx: Receiver<ReplicationOperation>,
@@ -1691,6 +1719,10 @@ impl<S: ReplicationStorage> ReplicationPool<S> {
    }

    /// Delete resync metadata from replication resync state in memory
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub async fn delete_resync_metadata(&self, bucket: &str) {
        let mut status_map = self.resyncer.status_map.write().await;
        status_map.remove(bucket);
@@ -21,11 +21,31 @@ pub(crate) use rustfs_replication::{
    should_count_head_proxy_failure,
 };

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) const RESYNC_META_FORMAT: u16 = rustfs_replication::resync::RESYNC_META_FORMAT;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) const RESYNC_META_VERSION: u16 = rustfs_replication::resync::RESYNC_META_VERSION;
 pub(crate) const RESYNC_FILE_MAX_BYTES: usize = rustfs_replication::RESYNC_FILE_MAX_BYTES;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) const WIRE_ZERO_TIME_UNIX: i64 = rustfs_replication::resync::WIRE_ZERO_TIME_UNIX;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) const MRF_META_FORMAT: u16 = rustfs_replication::mrf::MRF_META_FORMAT;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "declared boundary surface for the ECStore replication split plan; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) const MRF_META_VERSION: u16 = rustfs_replication::mrf::MRF_META_VERSION;

 fn map_replication_error(err: rustfs_replication::Error) -> Error {
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ const REPLICATION_TARGET_OFFLINE_ERROR_MARKERS: &[&str] = &[
    "tcp connect error",
 ];

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const RESYNC_TIME_INTERVAL: TokioDuration = TokioDuration::from_secs(60);

 static WARNED_MONITOR_UNINIT: std::sync::Once = std::sync::Once::new();
@@ -328,6 +332,10 @@ fn bounded_resync_max_jobs(value: usize) -> usize {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct ReplicationResyncer {
    pub status_map: Arc<RwLock<HashMap<String, BucketReplicationResyncStatus>>>,
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub worker_size: usize,
    pub(crate) cancel_tokens: Arc<RwLock<HashMap<ResyncCancelKey, CancellationToken>>>,
    resync_admission: Arc<Semaphore>,
@@ -544,6 +552,10 @@ impl ReplicationResyncer {
            .is_some_and(|status| status.failed_count > 0)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub async fn persist_to_disk<S>(&self, cancel_token: CancellationToken, api: Arc<S>)
    where
        S: ReplicationObjectIO,
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ impl ReplicationStats {
    }

    /// Site replication update replica statistics
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity replication surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn sr_update_replica_stat(&self, size: i64) {
        self.sr_stats.replica_size.fetch_add(size, Ordering::Relaxed);
        self.sr_stats.replica_count.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
@@ -704,6 +708,12 @@ impl ReplicationStats {
        } else {
            BucketReplicationStats::new()
        };
+        // Stamp the serializable failure windows from the live samples: the
+        // samples themselves do not cross the peer-RPC wire, so this snapshot
+        // is what cluster aggregation and the metrics endpoints see.
+        for stat in replication_stats.stats.values_mut() {
+            stat.fail_stats.refresh_windows();
+        }
        let uptime = if cache.contains_key(bucket) {
            SystemTime::now()
                .duration_since(SystemTime::UNIX_EPOCH)
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) use rustfs_replication::FailStats;
 pub(crate) use rustfs_replication::{
-    ActiveWorkerStat, BucketReplicationStat, InQueueMetric, ProxyMetric, ProxyStatsCache, QueueCache, ReplicationMetricScope,
-    SRMetricsSummary, XferStats,
+    ActiveWorkerStat, ProxyMetric, ProxyStatsCache, QueueCache, ReplicationMetricScope, SRMetricsSummary,
 };
-pub use rustfs_replication::{BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats};
+// Public so the admin wire DTOs (rustfs/src/admin/replication_metrics_wire.rs)
+// can project the internal stats onto the minio-go response shapes through
+// the storage_api facade chain.
+pub use rustfs_replication::{BucketReplicationStat, BucketReplicationStats, BucketStats, InQueueMetric, XferStats};
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ use rustfs_utils::http::{
    AMZ_OBJECT_TAGGING, AMZ_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION, AMZ_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION_KMS_CONTEXT, AMZ_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION_KMS_ID,
    AMZ_STORAGE_CLASS, AMZ_TAG_COUNT, CACHE_CONTROL, CONTENT_DISPOSITION, CONTENT_ENCODING, CONTENT_LANGUAGE, CONTENT_TYPE,
    HeaderExt as _, SUFFIX_OBJECTLOCK_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_OBJECTLOCK_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP,
-    SUFFIX_REPLICATION_ACTUAL_OBJECT_SIZE, SUFFIX_REPLICATION_SSEC_CRC, SUFFIX_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP, get_str, insert_header_map,
-    is_internal_key, is_object_encryption_marker, is_replication_stripped_encryption_key, ssec_replication_transport_header,
+    SUFFIX_REPLICATION_ACTUAL_OBJECT_SIZE, SUFFIX_REPLICATION_SSEC_CRC, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP,
+    SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP, SUFFIX_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP,
+    get_str, insert_header_map, is_internal_key, is_object_encryption_marker, is_replication_stripped_encryption_key,
+    ssec_replication_transport_header,
 };
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
 use time::format_description::well_known::Rfc3339;
@@ -119,6 +121,27 @@ fn classify_replication_source_encryption(metadata: &HashMap<String, String>) ->
    }
 }

+fn is_legacy_source_replication_timestamp_key(key: &str) -> bool {
+    fn has_prefix_and_suffix(key: &str, prefix: &str, suffix: &str) -> bool {
+        let key = key.as_bytes();
+        key.len() == prefix.len() + suffix.len()
+            && key[..prefix.len()].eq_ignore_ascii_case(prefix.as_bytes())
+            && key[prefix.len()..].eq_ignore_ascii_case(suffix.as_bytes())
+    }
+
+    [
+        SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP,
+        SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP,
+        SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_LEGALHOLD_TIMESTAMP,
+    ]
+    .iter()
+    .any(|suffix| {
+        ["x-rustfs-", "x-minio-"]
+            .iter()
+            .any(|prefix| has_prefix_and_suffix(key, prefix, suffix))
+    })
+}
+
 pub(crate) fn replication_object_is_ssec_encrypted(user_defined: &HashMap<String, String>) -> bool {
    rustfs_replication::is_ssec_encrypted(user_defined)
 }
@@ -176,6 +199,11 @@ pub(crate) fn replication_put_object_options(sc: &str, object_info: &ObjectInfo)
            continue;
        }

+        if is_legacy_source_replication_timestamp_key(key) {
+            meta.insert(format!("x-amz-meta-{key}"), value.to_string());
+            continue;
+        }
+
        if is_internal_key(key) || is_standard_header(key) {
            continue;
        }
@@ -259,15 +287,23 @@ pub(crate) fn replication_put_object_options(sc: &str, object_info: &ObjectInfo)

        if !tags.is_empty() {
            put_options.user_tags = tags;
-            put_options.internal.tagging_timestamp =
-                if let Some(timestamp) = get_str(&object_info.user_defined, SUFFIX_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP) {
-                    OffsetDateTime::parse(&timestamp, &Rfc3339)
-                        .map_err(|err| Error::other(format!("Failed to parse tagging timestamp: {err}")))?
-                } else {
-                    object_info.mod_time.unwrap_or(OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH)
-                };
        }
    }
+    // Load the stored tagging timestamp independently of whether any tags
+    // remain: DeleteObjectTagging leaves the object tagless but stamps this
+    // key, and the deletion's LWW timestamp must still reach the replica.
+    // With no stored key, fall back to mod_time only while tags exist
+    // (MinIO parity); a tagless object without the key was never tagged and
+    // keeps the epoch default (no header).
+    put_options.internal.tagging_timestamp = if let Some(timestamp) = get_str(&object_info.user_defined, SUFFIX_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP)
+    {
+        OffsetDateTime::parse(&timestamp, &Rfc3339)
+            .map_err(|err| Error::other(format!("Failed to parse tagging timestamp: {err}")))?
+    } else if !put_options.user_tags.is_empty() {
+        object_info.mod_time.unwrap_or(OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH)
+    } else {
+        OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH
+    };

    let metadata = &*object_info.user_defined;

@@ -283,13 +319,15 @@ pub(crate) fn replication_put_object_options(sc: &str, object_info: &ObjectInfo)
        put_options.cache_control = cache_control.to_string();
    }

-    if let Some(mode) = metadata.lookup(AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_MODE) {
+    if let Some(mode) = metadata.lookup(AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_MODE).filter(|mode| !mode.is_empty()) {
        put_options.mode = Some(ObjectLockRetentionMode::from(mode.to_uppercase().as_str()));
    }

    if let Some(retain_until_date) = metadata.lookup(AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_RETAIN_UNTIL_DATE) {
-        put_options.retain_until_date = OffsetDateTime::parse(retain_until_date, &Rfc3339)
-            .map_err(|err| Error::other(format!("Failed to parse retain until date: {err}")))?;
+        if !retain_until_date.is_empty() {
+            put_options.retain_until_date = OffsetDateTime::parse(retain_until_date, &Rfc3339)
+                .map_err(|err| Error::other(format!("Failed to parse retain until date: {err}")))?;
+        }
        put_options.internal.retention_timestamp =
            if let Some(timestamp) = get_str(&object_info.user_defined, SUFFIX_OBJECTLOCK_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP) {
                OffsetDateTime::parse(&timestamp, &Rfc3339).unwrap_or(OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH)
@@ -694,6 +732,110 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(options.internal.replication_request);
    }

+    /// DeleteObjectTagging leaves the object tagless but stamps the
+    /// tagging-timestamp internal key; the deletion's LWW timestamp must
+    /// still be loaded (and therefore sent) so the replica can order the
+    /// deletion against concurrent tag edits.
+    #[test]
+    fn replication_put_options_carry_tagging_timestamp_after_tag_deletion() {
+        let mut metadata = std::collections::HashMap::new();
+        rustfs_utils::http::insert_str(&mut metadata, SUFFIX_TAGGING_TIMESTAMP, "2026-01-02T03:04:05Z".to_string());
+
+        let object_info = ObjectInfo {
+            user_defined: Arc::new(metadata),
+            user_tags: Arc::new(String::new()),
+            mod_time: Some(OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH),
+            version_id: Some(Uuid::nil()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        let (options, _) = replication_put_object_options("", &object_info).expect("build put options");
+
+        assert!(options.user_tags.is_empty());
+        assert_eq!(
+            options.internal.tagging_timestamp,
+            OffsetDateTime::parse("2026-01-02T03:04:05Z", &Rfc3339).expect("valid timestamp"),
+            "the stored tagging timestamp must load independently of remaining tags"
+        );
+
+        // A tagless object without the stored key was never tagged: the epoch
+        // default keeps the header unsent.
+        let untagged = ObjectInfo {
+            user_tags: Arc::new(String::new()),
+            mod_time: Some(OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(1_700_000_000).expect("timestamp")),
+            version_id: Some(Uuid::nil()),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let (options, _) = replication_put_object_options("", &untagged).expect("build put options");
+        assert_eq!(options.internal.tagging_timestamp, OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn replication_put_options_do_not_promote_legacy_user_timestamp_metadata() {
+        let legacy_keys = [
+            "x-rustfs-source-replication-tagging-timestamp",
+            "x-rustfs-source-replication-retention-timestamp",
+            "x-rustfs-source-replication-legalhold-timestamp",
+            "x-minio-source-replication-tagging-timestamp",
+            "x-minio-source-replication-retention-timestamp",
+            "x-minio-source-replication-legalhold-timestamp",
+        ];
+        let object_info = ObjectInfo {
+            user_defined: Arc::new(
+                legacy_keys
+                    .iter()
+                    .map(|key| (key.to_string(), "2099-01-02T03:04:05Z".to_string()))
+                    .collect(),
+            ),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        let (options, _) = replication_put_object_options("", &object_info).expect("build put options");
+
+        for legacy_key in legacy_keys {
+            assert!(!options.user_metadata.contains_key(legacy_key));
+            assert_eq!(
+                options
+                    .user_metadata
+                    .get(&format!("x-amz-meta-{legacy_key}"))
+                    .map(String::as_str),
+                Some("2099-01-02T03:04:05Z")
+            );
+        }
+        assert_eq!(options.internal.tagging_timestamp, OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH);
+        assert_eq!(options.internal.retention_timestamp, OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH);
+        assert_eq!(options.internal.legalhold_timestamp, OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn replication_put_options_carry_retention_timestamp_after_clear() {
+        let mut metadata = HashMap::from([
+            (AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_MODE.to_string(), String::new()),
+            (AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_RETAIN_UNTIL_DATE.to_string(), String::new()),
+        ]);
+        rustfs_utils::http::insert_str(&mut metadata, SUFFIX_OBJECTLOCK_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP, "2026-01-02T03:04:05Z".to_string());
+        let object_info = ObjectInfo {
+            user_defined: Arc::new(metadata),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        let (options, _) = replication_put_object_options("", &object_info).expect("retention clear must replicate");
+
+        assert!(options.mode.is_none());
+        assert_eq!(options.retain_until_date, OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH);
+        assert_eq!(
+            options.internal.retention_timestamp,
+            OffsetDateTime::parse("2026-01-02T03:04:05Z", &Rfc3339).expect("valid timestamp")
+        );
+        let headers = options.header();
+        assert!(!headers.contains_key(AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_MODE));
+        assert!(!headers.contains_key(AMZ_OBJECT_LOCK_RETAIN_UNTIL_DATE));
+        assert_eq!(
+            rustfs_utils::http::get_header(&headers, SUFFIX_SOURCE_REPLICATION_RETENTION_TIMESTAMP).as_deref(),
+            Some("2026-01-02T03:04:05Z")
+        );
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn replication_put_options_strip_encryption_metadata_from_plaintext_objects() {
        use rustfs_utils::http::object_encryption_keys::{INTERNAL_ENCRYPTION_ORIGINAL_SIZE_HEADER, SSEC_ORIGINAL_SIZE_HEADER};
@@ -40,7 +40,14 @@ impl ARN {

 impl Display for ARN {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        write!(f, "arn:rustfs:{}:{}:{}:{}", self.arn_type, self.region, self.id, self.bucket)
+        // The `minio` partition is deliberate: madmin-go's ParseARN
+        // hard-rejects any other partition, so native mc/madmin tooling can
+        // only decode remote-target ARNs minted in this form (backlog#1675
+        // P1-7). Legacy `arn:rustfs:` ARNs persisted by older releases stay
+        // readable via the FromStr whitelist below; runtime matching between
+        // targets and replication rules is by full-string equality, so mixed
+        // partitions coexist safely.
+        write!(f, "arn:minio:{}:{}:{}:{}", self.arn_type, self.region, self.id, self.bucket)
    }
 }

@@ -48,7 +55,12 @@ impl FromStr for ARN {
    type Err = std::io::Error;

    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
-        if !s.starts_with("arn:rustfs:") {
+        // Partition whitelist, not just an `arn:` check: `BucketTargetType::
+        // from_str(...).unwrap_or_default()` below never fails, so this is
+        // the only structural gate rejecting foreign ARNs. `arn:rustfs:` is
+        // the legacy partition and must stay accepted forever (persisted
+        // bucket-targets.json / replication configs from older releases).
+        if !s.starts_with("arn:minio:") && !s.starts_with("arn:rustfs:") {
            return Err(std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "Invalid ARN format"));
        }

@@ -101,14 +113,50 @@ mod tests {
    }

    /// RustFS commonly generates ARNs with an empty region:
-    /// `arn:rustfs:replication::<deployment_id>:<bucket>`.
+    /// `arn:minio:replication::<deployment_id>:<bucket>`.
    #[test]
    fn from_str_handles_empty_region_segment() {
-        let parsed = ARN::from_str("arn:rustfs:replication::depl-123:bucket-a").expect("valid ARN must parse");
+        let parsed = ARN::from_str("arn:minio:replication::depl-123:bucket-a").expect("valid ARN must parse");

        assert_eq!(parsed.arn_type, BucketTargetType::ReplicationService);
        assert_eq!(parsed.region, "", "region segment is empty in this form");
        assert_eq!(parsed.id, "depl-123");
        assert_eq!(parsed.bucket, "bucket-a");
    }
+
+    /// madmin-go's `ParseARN` hard-rejects anything that does not start with
+    /// `arn:minio:`, so generated ARNs must use the `minio` partition or the
+    /// native mc/madmin tooling cannot decode remote-target listings.
+    #[test]
+    fn display_emits_minio_partition() {
+        let arn = ARN::new(
+            BucketTargetType::ReplicationService,
+            "depl-123".to_string(),
+            String::new(),
+            "bucket-a".to_string(),
+        );
+
+        assert_eq!(arn.to_string(), "arn:minio:replication::depl-123:bucket-a");
+    }
+
+    /// Persisted bucket-targets.json files from older RustFS releases carry
+    /// `arn:rustfs:` ARNs; the legacy partition must stay parseable forever.
+    #[test]
+    fn from_str_accepts_legacy_rustfs_partition() {
+        let parsed = ARN::from_str("arn:rustfs:replication:us-east-1:depl-123:bucket-a").expect("legacy ARN must parse");
+
+        assert_eq!(parsed.arn_type, BucketTargetType::ReplicationService);
+        assert_eq!(parsed.region, "us-east-1");
+        assert_eq!(parsed.id, "depl-123");
+        assert_eq!(parsed.bucket, "bucket-a");
+    }
+
+    /// The partition whitelist is the only structural gate: `BucketTargetType::
+    /// from_str(...).unwrap_or_default()` never fails, so any 6-segment string
+    /// would otherwise parse as `type=None`.
+    #[test]
+    fn from_str_rejects_unknown_partition() {
+        assert!(ARN::from_str("arn:aws:replication::depl-123:bucket-a").is_err());
+        assert!(ARN::from_str("not-an-arn").is_err());
+    }
 }
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Credentials {
 }

 #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize, Default, Clone)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity bucket-target service discriminator with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub enum ServiceType {
    #[default]
    Replication,
@@ -73,23 +73,6 @@ pub fn check_valid_bucket_name_strict(bucket_name: &str) -> Result<()> {
    check_bucket_name_common(bucket_name, true)
 }

-pub fn check_valid_object_name_prefix(object_name: &str) -> Result<()> {
-    if object_name.len() > 1024 {
-        return Err(Error::other("Object name cannot be longer than 1024 characters"));
-    }
-    if !object_name.is_ascii() {
-        return Err(Error::other("Object name with non-UTF-8 strings are not supported"));
-    }
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-pub fn check_valid_object_name(object_name: &str) -> Result<()> {
-    if object_name.trim().is_empty() {
-        return Err(Error::other("Object name cannot be empty"));
-    }
-    check_valid_object_name_prefix(object_name)
-}
-
 pub fn deserialize<T>(input: &[u8]) -> xml::DeResult<T>
 where
    T: for<'xml> xml::Deserialize<'xml>,
@@ -100,6 +83,10 @@ where
    Ok(ans)
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "xml serialize helper with no caller in this port; the live sibling is deserialize (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn serialize_content<T: xml::SerializeContent>(val: &T) -> xml::SerResult<String> {
    let mut buf = Vec::with_capacity(256);
    {
@@ -186,15 +173,27 @@ pub fn is_valid_object_name(object: &str) -> bool {
 /// Client-facing reason attached to rejections of object keys that Win32/NTFS
 /// cannot represent as file paths (issue #3299). Deployments on Linux/macOS
 /// accept the full S3 key character set.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "live on Windows: callers sit inside the #[cfg(target_os = \"windows\")] block in check_object_name_for_length_and_slash (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub const WINDOWS_RESERVED_CHARACTERS_REASON: &str =
    "object key contains characters unsupported on Windows hosts (one of ':', '*', '?', '\"', '|', '<', '>')";

 /// Client-facing reason for path segments Windows can store but not address
 /// afterwards (issue #3449): trailing dot/space or reserved DOS device names.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "live on Windows: callers sit inside the #[cfg(target_os = \"windows\")] block in check_object_name_for_length_and_slash (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub const WINDOWS_RESERVED_SEGMENT_REASON: &str = "object key contains a path segment unsupported on Windows hosts (trailing dot or space, or a reserved device name such as NUL/CON/COM1)";

 /// Reserved DOS device names that shadow regular files on Windows, even when
 /// an extension is appended (e.g. `NUL.txt` resolves to the `NUL` device).
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "live on Windows: callers sit inside the #[cfg(target_os = \"windows\")] block in check_object_name_for_length_and_slash (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const WINDOWS_RESERVED_NAMES: &[&str] = &[
    "CON", "PRN", "AUX", "NUL", "COM1", "COM2", "COM3", "COM4", "COM5", "COM6", "COM7", "COM8", "COM9", "LPT1", "LPT2", "LPT3",
    "LPT4", "LPT5", "LPT6", "LPT7", "LPT8", "LPT9",
@@ -204,6 +203,10 @@ const WINDOWS_RESERVED_NAMES: &[&str] = &[
 /// the Win32 API cannot address afterwards (issue #3449): segments ending in a
 /// dot or a space, and reserved DOS device names — bare or with an extension
 /// (`NUL.txt`), matching classic Win32 path resolution semantics.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "live on Windows: callers sit inside the #[cfg(target_os = \"windows\")] block in check_object_name_for_length_and_slash (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn object_name_has_windows_incompatible_segment(object: &str) -> bool {
    object.split(['/', '\\']).any(|segment| {
        if segment.ends_with('.') || segment.ends_with(' ') {
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ impl BucketVersioningSys {
    /// caller's own instance context so a second in-process store never
    /// answers with the first instance's versioning state; falls back to the
    /// ambient system when the instance cell is not initialized.
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "instance-scoped seam (backlog#1052) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) async fn get_in(ctx: &crate::runtime::instance::InstanceContext, bucket: &str) -> Result<VersioningConfiguration> {
        if bucket == RUSTFS_META_BUCKET || bucket.starts_with(RUSTFS_META_BUCKET) {
            return Ok(VersioningConfiguration::default());
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 use crate::disk::disk_store::{get_drive_walkdir_peek_timeout, get_drive_walkdir_stall_timeout};
 use crate::disk::error::DiskError;
 use crate::disk::{self, DiskAPI, DiskStore, WalkDirOptions};
+use futures::future::join_all;
 use metrics::counter;
 use rustfs_filemeta::{MetaCacheEntries, MetaCacheEntry, MetacacheReader, is_io_eof};
 use std::{
@@ -655,6 +656,7 @@ async fn list_path_raw_inner(
            errs.push(None);
        }
        let mut pending_entries: Vec<Option<MetaCacheEntry>> = vec![None; readers.len()];
+        let mut peek_outcomes: Vec<Option<PeekOutcome>> = std::iter::repeat_with(|| None).take(readers.len()).collect();

        loop {
            let mut current = MetaCacheEntry::default();
@@ -676,6 +678,21 @@ async fn list_path_raw_inner(
            let mut has_err = 0;
            let mut agree = 0;

+            // Start every missing head read in the same round so one stalled
+            // disk cannot multiply the wait budget by the erasure-set width.
+            // Outcomes are still consumed below in stable disk-index order.
+            let concurrent_peeks = readers.iter_mut().enumerate().filter_map(|(i, reader)| {
+                if errs[i].is_some() || pending_entries[i].is_some() {
+                    return None;
+                }
+
+                let cancel = &revjob_rx;
+                Some(async move { (i, peek_with_timeout(cancel, reader, peek_timeout).await) })
+            });
+            for (i, outcome) in join_all(concurrent_peeks).await {
+                peek_outcomes[i] = Some(outcome);
+            }
+
            for (i, r) in readers.iter_mut().enumerate() {
                if errs[i].is_some() {
                    has_err += 1;
@@ -685,7 +702,10 @@ async fn list_path_raw_inner(
                let entry = if let Some(entry) = pending_entries[i].take() {
                    entry
                } else {
-                    match peek_with_timeout(&revjob_rx, r, peek_timeout).await {
+                    let Some(outcome) = peek_outcomes[i].take() else {
+                        return Err(DiskError::Unexpected);
+                    };
+                    match outcome {
                        PeekOutcome::Ready(res) => {
                            if let Some(entry) = res {
                                // info!("read entry disk: {}, name: {}", i, entry.name);
@@ -1295,6 +1315,36 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(err, DiskError::Timeout);
    }

+    #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
+    async fn list_path_raw_bounds_multiple_stalled_readers_by_one_peek_deadline() {
+        let peek_timeout = Duration::from_millis(20);
+        let started = tokio::time::Instant::now();
+        let err = list_path_raw(
+            CancellationToken::new(),
+            ListPathRawOptions {
+                disks: vec![None, None, None, None],
+                min_disks: 1,
+                test_reader_behaviors: vec![
+                    TestReaderBehavior::Stall,
+                    TestReaderBehavior::Stall,
+                    TestReaderBehavior::Stall,
+                    TestReaderBehavior::Stall,
+                ],
+                peek_timeout: Some(peek_timeout),
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect_err("all stalled readers should fail the listing");
+
+        assert_eq!(err, DiskError::Timeout);
+        assert_eq!(
+            started.elapsed(),
+            peek_timeout,
+            "reader deadlines must overlap instead of accumulating once per disk"
+        );
+    }
+
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn list_path_raw_waits_past_producer_stall_for_slow_progressing_reader() {
        let entry = MetaCacheEntry {
@@ -229,17 +229,6 @@ pub fn http_resp_to_error_response(
    err_resp
 }

-pub fn err_transfer_acceleration_bucket(bucket_name: &str) -> ErrorResponse {
-    ErrorResponse {
-        status_code: StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
-        code: S3ErrorCode::InvalidArgument,
-        message: "The name of the bucket used for Transfer Acceleration must be DNS-compliant and must not contain periods ‘.’."
-            .to_string(),
-        bucket_name: bucket_name.to_string(),
-        ..Default::default()
-    }
-}
-
 pub fn err_entity_too_large(total_size: i64, max_object_size: i64, bucket_name: &str, object_name: &str) -> ErrorResponse {
    let msg = format!(
        "Your proposed upload size ‘{}’ exceeds the maximum allowed object size ‘{}’ for single PUT operation.",
@@ -295,16 +284,6 @@ pub fn err_invalid_argument(message: &str) -> ErrorResponse {
    }
 }

-pub fn err_api_not_supported(message: &str) -> ErrorResponse {
-    ErrorResponse {
-        status_code: StatusCode::NOT_IMPLEMENTED,
-        code: S3ErrorCode::Custom("APINotSupported".into()),
-        message: message.to_string(),
-        request_id: "rustfs".to_string(),
-        ..Default::default()
-    }
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ impl Object {
        Self { ..Default::default() }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity reader surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn do_get_request(&self, request: &GetRequest) -> Result<GetResponse, std::io::Error> {
        let _ = request.did_offset_change;
        let _ = request.offset;
@@ -150,12 +154,20 @@ impl Object {
        ))
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn set_offset(&mut self, bytes_read: i64) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
        self.curr_offset += bytes_read;

        Ok(())
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn read(&mut self, b: &[u8]) -> Result<i64, std::io::Error> {
        let mut read_req = GetRequest {
            is_read_op: true,
@@ -180,6 +192,10 @@ impl Object {
        Ok(response.size)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn stat(&self) -> Result<ObjectInfo, std::io::Error> {
        if !self.is_started || !self.object_info_set {
            let _ = self.do_get_request(&GetRequest {
@@ -192,6 +208,10 @@ impl Object {
        Ok(self.object_info.clone())
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn read_at(&mut self, b: &[u8], offset: i64) -> Result<i64, std::io::Error> {
        self.curr_offset = offset;

@@ -219,6 +239,10 @@ impl Object {
        Ok(response.size)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn seek(&mut self, offset: i64, whence: i64) -> Result<i64, std::io::Error> {
        if !self.is_started || !self.object_info_set {
            let seek_req = GetRequest {
@@ -253,6 +277,10 @@ impl Object {
        Ok(self.curr_offset)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity Object reader method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn close(&mut self) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
        self.is_closed = true;
        Ok(())
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ use crate::client::{
    api_put_object_common::optimal_part_info,
    api_put_object_multipart::UploadPartParams,
    api_s3_datatypes::{CompleteMultipartUpload, CompletePart, ObjectPart},
-    constants::{ISO8601_DATEFORMAT, MAX_MULTIPART_PUT_OBJECT_SIZE, MIN_PART_SIZE, TOTAL_WORKERS},
+    constants::{ISO8601_DATEFORMAT, MAX_MULTIPART_PUT_OBJECT_SIZE, MIN_PART_SIZE},
    credentials::SignatureType,
    transition_api::{ReaderImpl, TransitionClient, UploadInfo},
    utils::{is_amz_header, is_minio_header, is_rustfs_header, is_standard_header, is_storageclass_header},
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@ pub fn is_object(reader: &ReaderImpl) -> bool {
    matches!(reader, ReaderImpl::ObjectBody(_))
 }

-pub fn is_read_at(reader: ReaderImpl) -> bool {
-    matches!(reader, ReaderImpl::ObjectBody(_))
-}
-
 pub fn optimal_part_info(object_size: i64, configured_part_size: u64) -> Result<(i64, i64, i64), std::io::Error> {
    let unknown_size;
    let mut object_size = object_size;
@@ -81,18 +81,6 @@ async fn read_multipart_part(reader: &mut ReaderImpl, want: usize) -> Result<Vec
    }
 }

-pub struct UploadedPartRes {
-    pub error: std::io::Error,
-    pub part_num: i64,
-    pub size: i64,
-    pub part: ObjectPart,
-}
-
-pub struct UploadPartReq {
-    pub part_num: i64,
-    pub part: ObjectPart,
-}
-
 impl TransitionClient {
    pub async fn put_object_multipart_stream(
        self: Arc<Self>,
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ use crate::client::utils::base64_decode;

 use super::transition_api;

-pub struct ListAllMyBucketsResult {
-    pub owner: Owner,
-}
-
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct CommonPrefix {
    pub prefix: String,
@@ -89,6 +85,10 @@ pub struct ListVersionsResult {
    pub next_version_id_marker: String,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "fields of a MinIO-parity list result that this port builds but never reads back (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub struct ListBucketResult {
    common_prefixes: Vec<CommonPrefix>,
    contents: Vec<transition_api::ObjectInfo>,
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ pub struct ListBucketResult {
    prefix: String,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "fields of a MinIO-parity list result that this port builds but never reads back (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub struct ListMultipartUploadsResult {
    bucket: String,
    key_marker: String,
@@ -117,16 +121,15 @@ pub struct ListMultipartUploadsResult {
    common_prefixes: Vec<CommonPrefix>,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "fields of a MinIO-parity list result that this port builds but never reads back (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub struct Initiator {
    id: String,
    display_name: String,
 }

-pub struct CopyObjectResult {
-    pub etag: String,
-    pub last_modified: OffsetDateTime,
-}
-
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct ObjectPart {
    pub etag: String,
@@ -260,6 +263,7 @@ pub struct CompletePart {
 }

 impl CompletePart {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "MinIO-parity accessor with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    fn checksum(&self, t: &ChecksumMode) -> String {
        match t {
            ChecksumMode::ChecksumCRC32C => {
@@ -284,11 +288,6 @@ impl CompletePart {
    }
 }

-pub struct CopyObjectPartResult {
-    pub etag: String,
-    pub last_modified: OffsetDateTime,
-}
-
 #[derive(Debug, Default, serde::Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename = "CompleteMultipartUpload")]
 pub struct CompleteMultipartUpload {
@@ -357,10 +356,10 @@ impl CompleteMultipartUpload {
    }
 }

-pub struct CreateBucketConfiguration {
-    pub location: String,
-}
-
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "live via quick_xml::de::from_str in bucket_cache.rs; serde deserialization is not a construction (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 #[derive(serde::Serialize)]
 pub struct DeleteObject {
    //api has
@@ -368,21 +367,6 @@ pub struct DeleteObject {
    pub version_id: String,
 }

-pub struct DeletedObject {
-    //s3s has
-    pub key: String,
-    pub version_id: String,
-    pub deletemarker: bool,
-    pub deletemarker_version_id: String,
-}
-
-pub struct NonDeletedObject {
-    pub key: String,
-    pub code: String,
-    pub message: String,
-    pub version_id: String,
-}
-
 #[derive(serde::Serialize)]
 pub struct DeleteMultiObjects {
    pub quiet: bool,
@@ -402,6 +386,7 @@ impl DeleteMultiObjects {
        Ok(buf)
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "MinIO-parity XML helper with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn unmarshal(buf: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, std::io::Error> {
        #[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
        struct WireDeleteObject {
@@ -436,8 +421,3 @@ impl DeleteMultiObjects {
        })
    }
 }
-
-pub struct DeleteMultiObjectsResult {
-    pub deleted_objects: Vec<DeletedObject>,
-    pub undeleted_objects: Vec<NonDeletedObject>,
-}
@@ -365,6 +365,10 @@ mod tests {
 pub struct Checksum {
    checksum_type: ChecksumMode,
    r: Vec<u8>,
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "checksum bookkeeping field kept beside the value it guards (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    computed: bool,
 }

@@ -32,8 +32,5 @@ pub const MAX_MULTIPART_PUT_OBJECT_SIZE: i64 = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 5;
 pub const UNSIGNED_PAYLOAD: &str = "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD";
 pub const UNSIGNED_PAYLOAD_TRAILER: &str = "STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER";

-pub const TOTAL_WORKERS: i64 = 4;
-
-pub const SIGN_V4_ALGORITHM: &str = "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256";
 pub const ISO8601_DATEFORMAT: &[FormatItem<'_>] =
    format_description!("[year]-[month]-[day]T[hour]:[minute]:[second].[subsecond]Z");
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ impl<P: Provider + Default> Credentials<P> {
        Ok(self.creds.clone())
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity credential surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn expire(&mut self) {
        self.force_refresh = true;
    }
@@ -133,6 +137,10 @@ impl Provider for Static {

 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
 pub struct STSError {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity STS error detail that this port never reads back (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub r#type: String,
    pub code: String,
    pub message: String,
@@ -141,6 +149,10 @@ pub struct STSError {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, thiserror::Error)]
 pub struct ErrorResponse {
    pub sts_error: STSError,
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity STS error detail that this port never reads back (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub request_id: String,
 }

@@ -158,22 +170,3 @@ impl ErrorResponse {
        return self.sts_error.message.clone();
    }
 }
-
-pub fn xml_decoder<T>(body: &[u8]) -> Result<T, Error>
-where
-    for<'de> T: Deserialize<'de>,
-{
-    match std::str::from_utf8(body) {
-        Ok(xml_body) => quick_xml::de::from_str::<T>(xml_body).map_err(|err| Error::new(ErrorKind::InvalidData, err.to_string())),
-        Err(err) => Err(Error::new(ErrorKind::InvalidData, err.to_string())),
-    }
-}
-
-pub fn xml_decode_and_body<T>(body_reader: &[u8]) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, T), std::io::Error>
-where
-    for<'de> T: Deserialize<'de>,
-{
-    let body = body_reader.to_vec();
-    let parsed = xml_decoder(&body)?;
-    Ok((body, parsed))
-}
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.

 // #730: S3 client compatibility models are kept while ECStore callers move to narrower facades.
-#![allow(dead_code)]

 pub mod admin_handler_utils;
 pub mod api_error_response;
@@ -77,39 +77,6 @@ fn part_number_to_rangespec(oi: ObjectInfo, part_number: usize) -> Option<HTTPRa
    })
 }

-fn get_compressed_offsets(oi: ObjectInfo, offset: i64) -> (i64, i64, i64, i64, u64) {
-    let mut skip_length: i64 = 0;
-    let mut cumulative_actual_size: i64 = 0;
-    let mut first_part_idx: i64 = 0;
-    let mut compressed_offset: i64 = 0;
-    let mut part_skip: i64 = 0;
-    let mut decrypt_skip: i64 = 0;
-    let mut seq_num: u64 = 0;
-    for (i, part) in oi.parts.iter().enumerate() {
-        cumulative_actual_size += part.actual_size as i64;
-        if cumulative_actual_size <= offset {
-            compressed_offset += part.size as i64;
-        } else {
-            first_part_idx = i as i64;
-            skip_length = cumulative_actual_size - part.actual_size as i64;
-            break;
-        }
-    }
-    skip_length = offset - skip_length;
-
-    let parts: &[ObjectPartInfo] = &oi.parts;
-    if skip_length > 0
-        && parts.len() > first_part_idx as usize
-        && parts[first_part_idx as usize].index.as_ref().is_some_and(|idx| idx.len() > 0)
-    {
-        let _ = part_skip;
-        let _ = decrypt_skip;
-        let _ = seq_num;
-    }
-
-    (compressed_offset, part_skip, first_part_idx, decrypt_skip, seq_num)
-}
-
 pub fn new_getobjectreader<'a>(
    rs: &Option<HTTPRangeSpec>,
    oi: &'a ObjectInfo,
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ const X_OBS_VERSION_ID: &str = "x-obs-version-id";
 const MAX_REMOTE_VERSION_ID_LEN: usize = 1024;

 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "bucket versioning states kept as a complete vocabulary (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(crate) enum BucketVersioningState {
    Unknown,
    Disabled,
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ impl RemoteVersion {
        }
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "MinIO-parity accessor with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(crate) fn exact_request_id(&self) -> Result<Option<&str>, Error> {
        match self {
            Self::Unknown => Err(Error::new(
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ where

 const C_UNKNOWN: i32 = -1;
 const C_OFFLINE: i32 = 0;
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "reachable only from the unused transition client methods below (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const C_ONLINE: i32 = 1;

 fn invalid_utf8_header_error(scope: &str, header_name: &str) -> std::io::Error {
@@ -320,6 +324,10 @@ impl TransitionClient {
        Ok(client)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client surface with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn endpoint_url(&self) -> Url {
        self.endpoint_url.clone()
    }
@@ -348,12 +356,20 @@ impl TransitionClient {
            .to_string())
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn trace_errors_only_off(&self) {
        if let Ok(mut trace_errors_only) = self.trace_errors_only.lock() {
            *trace_errors_only = false;
        }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn trace_off(&self) {
        if let Ok(mut is_trace_enabled) = self.is_trace_enabled.lock() {
            *is_trace_enabled = false;
@@ -363,12 +379,20 @@ impl TransitionClient {
        }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn set_s3_transfer_accelerate(&self, accelerate_endpoint: &str) {
        if let Ok(mut endpoint) = self.s3_accelerate_endpoint.lock() {
            *endpoint = accelerate_endpoint.to_string();
        }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn set_s3_enable_dual_stack(&self, enabled: bool) {
        if let Ok(mut dual_stack) = self.s3_dual_stack_enabled.lock() {
            *dual_stack = enabled;
@@ -398,10 +422,18 @@ impl TransitionClient {
        (hash_algos, hash_sums)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn is_online(&self) -> bool {
        !self.is_offline()
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn mark_offline(&self) {
        self.health_status
            .compare_exchange(C_ONLINE, C_OFFLINE, Ordering::SeqCst, Ordering::SeqCst);
@@ -411,10 +443,18 @@ impl TransitionClient {
        self.health_status.load(Ordering::SeqCst) == C_OFFLINE
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn health_check(hc_duration: Duration) {
        let _ = hc_duration;
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity transition client method with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn dump_http(&self, req: &Request<s3s::Body>, resp: &Response<Incoming>) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
        let mut resp_trace: Vec<u8>;

@@ -1102,6 +1142,7 @@ impl Default for ObjectInfo {
 }

 impl ObjectInfo {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "MinIO-parity accessor with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(crate) fn remote_version(
        &self,
        capabilities: ProviderVersionCapabilities,
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ lazy_static! {
    };
 }

-pub fn is_standard_query_value(qs_key: &str) -> bool {
-    SUPPORTED_QUERY_VALUES[qs_key]
-}
-
 pub fn is_storageclass_header(header_key: &str) -> bool {
    header_key.to_lowercase() == X_AMZ_STORAGE_CLASS.as_str().to_lowercase()
 }
@@ -190,6 +190,17 @@ pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSION_SUSPENDED: &str = "version_su
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSIONED: &str = "versioned";
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_CONFLICTING_METADATA: &str = "conflicting_metadata";
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DELETE_MARKER: &str = "delete_marker";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY: &str = "data_read_inline_body_verify";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_DELETED: &str = "data_read_inline_deleted";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY: &str = "data_read_inline_geometry";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH: &str = "data_read_inline_identity_mismatch";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD: &str = "data_read_inline_missing_payload";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD: &str = "data_read_inline_missing_shard";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_NOT_INLINE: &str = "data_read_inline_not_inline";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE: &str = "data_read_inline_part_shape";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_REMOTE: &str = "data_read_inline_remote";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE: &str = "data_read_inline_size";
+pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_TRANSFORMED: &str = "data_read_inline_transformed";
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_ERROR: &str = "error";
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM: &str = "insufficient_quorum";
 pub(crate) const GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND: &str = "not_found";
@@ -551,6 +562,32 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSIONED, "versioned");
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_CONFLICTING_METADATA, "conflicting_metadata");
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DELETE_MARKER, "delete_marker");
+        assert_eq!(
+            GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY,
+            "data_read_inline_body_verify"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_DELETED, "data_read_inline_deleted");
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY, "data_read_inline_geometry");
+        assert_eq!(
+            GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH,
+            "data_read_inline_identity_mismatch"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD,
+            "data_read_inline_missing_payload"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD,
+            "data_read_inline_missing_shard"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_NOT_INLINE, "data_read_inline_not_inline");
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE, "data_read_inline_part_shape");
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_REMOTE, "data_read_inline_remote");
+        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE, "data_read_inline_size");
+        assert_eq!(
+            GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_TRANSFORMED,
+            "data_read_inline_transformed"
+        );
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_ERROR, "error");
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM, "insufficient_quorum");
        assert_eq!(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND, "not_found");
@@ -637,14 +637,23 @@ impl Default for DiskOperationMetrics {
 }

 impl DiskOperationMetrics {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "internal metrics recorder reached only from record() below (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn record_call(&mut self) {
        self.lifetime_calls.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "internal metrics recorder reached only from record() below (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn record_latency(&mut self, now_sec: u64, elapsed: Duration) {
        self.record_latency_atomic(now_sec, elapsed);
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "metrics roll-up with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    fn record(&mut self, now_sec: u64, elapsed: Duration) {
        self.record_call();
        self.record_latency(now_sec, elapsed);
@@ -770,6 +779,7 @@ impl DiskHealthTracker {
    }

    /// Set disk as faulty
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn set_faulty(&self) {
        self.status.store(DISK_HEALTH_FAULTY, Ordering::Release);
    }
@@ -850,6 +860,7 @@ impl DiskHealthTracker {
        became_offline
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn mark_offline(&self, endpoint: &Endpoint, reason: &'static str) -> bool {
        let current = self.runtime_state();
        if current == RuntimeDriveHealthState::Offline {
@@ -980,11 +991,13 @@ impl DiskHealthTracker {
    }

    /// Get waiting operations count
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn waiting_count(&self) -> u32 {
        self.waiting.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
    }

    /// Get last success timestamp
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub fn last_success(&self) -> i64 {
        self.last_success.load(Ordering::Acquire)
    }
@@ -1026,21 +1039,6 @@ impl Default for DiskHealthTracker {
    }
 }

-/// Health check context key for tracking disk operations
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-struct HealthDiskCtxKey;
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct HealthDiskCtxValue {
-    last_success: Arc<AtomicI64>,
-}
-
-impl HealthDiskCtxValue {
-    fn log_success(&self) {
-        self.last_success.store(current_unix_nanos(), Ordering::Relaxed);
-    }
-}
-
 /// LocalDiskWrapper wraps a DiskStore with health tracking capabilities.
 /// This is similar to Go's xlStorageDiskIDCheck.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -1072,10 +1070,6 @@ impl LocalDiskWrapper {
        )
    }

-    pub(crate) fn new_with_health(disk: Arc<LocalDisk>, health_check: bool, health: Arc<DiskHealthTracker>) -> Self {
-        Self::new_with_health_and_metrics(disk, health_check, health, Arc::new(DiskHealthMetricEpoch::default()))
-    }
-
    pub(crate) fn new_with_reconnect_state(
        disk: Arc<LocalDisk>,
        health_check: bool,
@@ -1438,20 +1432,6 @@ impl LocalDiskWrapper {
        }
    }

-    async fn check_id(&self, want_id: Option<Uuid>) -> Result<()> {
-        if want_id.is_none() {
-            return Ok(());
-        }
-
-        let stored_disk_id = self.disk.get_disk_id().await?;
-
-        if stored_disk_id != want_id {
-            return Err(Error::other(format!("Disk ID mismatch wanted {want_id:?}, got {stored_disk_id:?}")));
-        }
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
    /// Check if disk ID is stale
    async fn check_disk_stale(&self) -> Result<()> {
        let Some(current_disk_id) = *self.disk_id.read().await else {
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ pub fn to_volume_error(io_err: std::io::Error) -> std::io::Error {
    }
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn to_disk_error(io_err: std::io::Error) -> std::io::Error {
    match io_err.kind() {
        std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => DiskError::DiskNotFound.into(),
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ pub async fn remove(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> io::Result<()> {
    }
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub async fn remove_all(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> io::Result<()> {
    // Try remove_file first; fall back to remove_dir_all if it's a directory
    match fs::remove_file(path.as_ref()).await {
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ async fn remove_empty_directory_tree_under_mount_lease(
 }

 #[cfg(unix)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 async fn remove_empty_directory_tree_with(
    root: &Path,
    before_descend: impl FnMut(&Path) -> std::io::Result<()>,
@@ -1016,13 +1017,29 @@ fn record_direct_read_page_fault_delta(path: &'static str, stage: &'static str,
 /// When enabled, shard reads bypass the page cache using O_DIRECT flag.
 /// Requires aligned buffers (typically 512 bytes or 4096 bytes).
 /// Default: false (uses page cache via mmap/pread).
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_ENABLE";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_ENABLE: bool = false;

 /// Minimum shard size threshold for O_DIRECT reads.
 /// Only shards larger than this threshold will use O_DIRECT.
 /// Default: 4MB.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD: &str = "RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD: usize = 4 * 1024 * 1024;

 /// Enable O_DIRECT for erasure shard / multipart part data writes (Linux only).
@@ -1036,7 +1053,15 @@ const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD: usize = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
 /// EINVAL/EOPNOTSUPP (tmpfs, overlayfs, 9p, ...) latch the path off and fall
 /// back to buffered writes for the whole disk. Non-Linux always falls back.
 /// Default: false (buffered writes via the page cache, as before).
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE: bool = false;
 const ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_MMAP_POPULATE_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_OBJECT_MMAP_POPULATE_ENABLE";
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_MMAP_POPULATE_ENABLE: bool = false;
@@ -1095,12 +1120,14 @@ macro_rules! cached_read_env {

 cached_read_env! {
    /// Check if O_DIRECT reads are enabled.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)")]
    fn is_direct_io_read_enabled() -> bool =
        rustfs_utils::get_env_bool(ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_ENABLE, DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_ENABLE);
 }

 cached_read_env! {
    /// Check if O_DIRECT shard/part data writes are enabled.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)")]
    fn is_direct_io_write_enabled() -> bool =
        rustfs_utils::get_env_bool(ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE, DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE);
 }
@@ -1456,6 +1483,7 @@ pub(crate) fn effective_durability(volume: &str) -> DurabilityMode {

 cached_read_env! {
    /// Get the O_DIRECT read threshold size.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)")]
    fn get_direct_io_read_threshold() -> usize =
        rustfs_utils::get_env_usize(ENV_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD, DEFAULT_RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_READ_THRESHOLD);
 }
@@ -1673,12 +1701,20 @@ impl DirectIoWriteState {
 /// Target staging size for O_DIRECT writes, rounded up to the DIO alignment.
 /// Bounds the per-writer aligned bounce buffer and batches many shard blocks
 /// into one positioned write to keep the syscall count low.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const DIRECT_WRITE_STAGING_BYTES: usize = 1024 * 1024;

 /// Aligned bounce-buffer capacity for a given DIO alignment: the target staging
 /// size rounded up to a whole multiple of `align` so the buffer address, every
 /// flushed batch length, and every write offset stay alignment-correct.
 /// Platform-independent (no O_DIRECT), so it is unit-tested on any host.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn direct_write_staging_capacity(align: usize) -> usize {
    debug_assert!(align.is_power_of_two() && align >= 512);
    DIRECT_WRITE_STAGING_BYTES.div_ceil(align) * align
@@ -1687,6 +1723,10 @@ fn direct_write_staging_capacity(align: usize) -> usize {
 /// Split `filled` staged bytes into the alignment-sized prefix written with
 /// O_DIRECT and the sub-alignment tail written buffered. Platform-independent,
 /// so the tail-boundary math is unit-tested on any host.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "platform-conditional: production callers are inside #[cfg(target_os = \"linux\")] blocks, so this reads as dead on non-Linux hosts (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn direct_write_tail_split(filled: usize, align: usize) -> (usize, usize) {
    let aligned = filled - (filled % align);
    (aligned, filled - aligned)
@@ -2142,6 +2182,7 @@ fn set_delete_version_fail_after_data_staged(path: &str) {
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(crate) fn set_delete_version_fail_after_commit(root: &Path, path: &str) {
    DELETE_VERSION_FAIL_AFTER_COMMIT
        .lock()
@@ -2447,6 +2488,10 @@ enum SyncMode {
    FileOnly,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "reclaim bookkeeping fields written by Drop but never read back (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct FileCacheReclaimWriter {
    inner: File,
    reclaim_len: usize,
@@ -2454,6 +2499,10 @@ struct FileCacheReclaimWriter {
    reclaimed: bool,
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "reclaim bookkeeping fields written by Drop but never read back (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct FileCacheReclaimReader {
    inner: File,
    reclaim_offset: u64,
@@ -2519,6 +2568,10 @@ impl<R: AsyncRead + Unpin> AsyncRead for StallTimeoutReader<R> {
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "reclaim metrics emitter reached only from the Linux-gated reclaim paths (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn record_file_cache_reclaim_success(kind: &'static str, reclaim_len: usize, started: std::time::Instant) {
    // Runs per read-stream page-cache reclaim window; skip the whole emission
    // (three metric-key constructions) when general metrics are disabled.
@@ -3071,6 +3124,7 @@ impl LocalIoBackend for StdBackend {
            use memmap2::MmapOptions;
            use std::time::{Duration as StdDuration, Instant as StdInstant};

+            #[allow(dead_code, reason = "mmap copy result slot kept beside the mapping it owns (backlog#1823)")]
            struct MmapCopyReadResult {
                bytes: Bytes,
                access_check_duration: StdDuration,
@@ -4704,6 +4758,10 @@ fn build_local_io_backend(root: PathBuf) -> Arc<dyn LocalIoBackend> {
    Arc::new(StdBackend::new(root))
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "path cache and cwd slots retained beside the disk root they derive from (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub struct LocalDisk {
    pub root: PathBuf,
    publication_root: os::PublicationRoot,
@@ -5490,6 +5548,7 @@ impl LocalDisk {
        Ok(Self::resolve_abs_path_from(&self.root, path.as_ref()))
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    fn io_resolve_abs_path(&self, path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> PathBuf {
        let path_ref = path.as_ref();
        let path_str = path_ref.to_string_lossy();
@@ -5567,15 +5626,24 @@ impl LocalDisk {
    }

    // Check if a path is valid
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "method wrapper over the live free function check_local_disk_valid_path; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn check_valid_path<P: AsRef<Path>>(&self, path: P) -> Result<()> {
        check_local_disk_valid_path(self.io_root(), path)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "method wrapper over the live free function reject_local_disk_symlink_components; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn reject_symlink_components(&self, path: &Path) -> Result<()> {
        reject_local_disk_symlink_components(self.io_root(), path)
    }

    // Batch path generation with single lock acquisition
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    fn get_object_paths_batch(&self, requests: &[(String, String)]) -> Result<Vec<PathBuf>> {
        let mut results = Vec::with_capacity(requests.len());
        let mut cache_misses = Vec::new();
@@ -6488,6 +6556,7 @@ impl LocalDisk {
        Ok(f)
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    async fn open_file_read_only(&self, path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<File> {
        let f = super::fs::open_file(path.as_ref(), O_RDONLY).await.map_err(to_file_error)?;
        Ok(f)
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.

 // #730: disk abstractions still carry staged health and direct-I/O migration paths.
-#![allow(dead_code)]

 pub mod disk_store;
 pub mod endpoint;
@@ -1114,6 +1113,10 @@ pub struct DiskInfo {
 }

 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "MinIO-parity disk info shape with no constructor in this port (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub struct Info {
    pub total: u64,
    pub free: u64,
@@ -1372,6 +1375,7 @@ pub fn conv_part_err_to_int(err: &Option<Error>) -> usize {
    }
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn has_part_err(part_errs: &[usize]) -> bool {
    part_errs.iter().any(|err| *err != CHECK_PART_SUCCESS)
 }
@@ -571,6 +571,10 @@ fn regular_files(dir: &Path) -> io::Result<Vec<PathBuf>> {

 /// Fdatasync every regular file directly inside `dir`, then fsync the directory
 /// itself.
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "reached only through sync_dir_files, whose callers are tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn sync_dir_files_std(dir: impl AsRef<Path>) -> io::Result<()> {
    for entry in std::fs::read_dir(dir.as_ref())? {
        let entry = entry?;
@@ -583,6 +587,7 @@ pub fn sync_dir_files_std(dir: impl AsRef<Path>) -> io::Result<()> {

 /// Async wrapper around [`sync_dir_files_std`]. Large directories flush files
 /// concurrently, bounded both per directory and process-wide.
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub async fn sync_dir_files(dir: impl AsRef<Path>) -> io::Result<()> {
    sync_dir_files_with_limiter(dir, Arc::new(Semaphore::new(MAX_PARALLEL_FILE_SYNCS))).await
 }
@@ -1809,10 +1814,6 @@ impl RenameCommitGuard {
        })
    }

-    pub(crate) fn lock_destination_directory_for_path_access(&self, directory: &Path) -> io::Result<RenameDestinationPathGuard> {
-        self.destination_directory_guard(directory, false)
-    }
-
    pub(crate) fn create_destination_directory_for_path_access(
        &self,
        directory: &Path,
@@ -2858,13 +2859,6 @@ pub async fn os_mkdir_all(dir_path: impl AsRef<Path>, base_dir: impl AsRef<Path>
    Ok(())
 }

-/// Check if a file exists.
-/// Returns true if the file exists, false otherwise.
-#[tracing::instrument(level = "debug", skip_all)]
-pub fn file_exists(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> bool {
-    std::fs::metadata(path.as_ref()).map(|_| true).unwrap_or(false)
-}
-
 /// Whether an [`io::Error`] means "the directory is not empty".
 ///
 /// POSIX lets `rmdir`/`rename` report a non-empty directory as either
@@ -704,6 +704,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn create_bitrot_reader_from_bytes_with_stage_metrics(
 }

 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn create_deferred_bitrot_reader(
    inline_data: Option<Bytes>,
    disk: Option<DiskStore>,
@@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ pub struct ObjectOptions {
    /// fence avoids recursively acquiring the read lock behind a queued writer.
    pub bucket_lifecycle_lock_fence: Option<NamespaceLockFence>,
    pub replication_request: bool,
+    /// Source-cluster LWW timestamps carried by an authorized replication
+    /// request; None when the source never modified the category. Only the
+    /// replication-authorized options builders may set these.
+    pub replication_tagging_timestamp: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
+    pub replication_retention_timestamp: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
+    pub replication_legalhold_timestamp: Option<OffsetDateTime>,
    /// Authorized SSE-C replication passthrough: the body is already
    /// ciphertext, so the write path must not encrypt or compress it and
    /// stores the restored encryption metadata verbatim. Only the
@@ -32,15 +32,22 @@ use crate::diagnostics::get::{
    GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_NOT_READ_DATA, GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_PART_NUMBER,
    GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_RAW_DATA_MOVEMENT_READ, GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_USABLE, GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSION_ID,
    GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSION_SUSPENDED, GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_VERSIONED,
-    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_CONFLICTING_METADATA, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DELETE_MARKER,
-    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_ERROR, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM,
-    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_UNSAFE_REQUEST,
-    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VALID_QUORUM, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VERSION_MATCH_QUORUM,
-    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VERSION_NOT_FOUND, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_CORRUPT, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_DISK_NOT_FOUND,
-    GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_ERROR, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_IGNORED, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_NOT_FOUND, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT,
-    GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_VALID, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_NOT_FOUND, GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING,
-    GET_OBJECT_PATH_DIRECT_MEMORY, GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META, GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX, GET_OBJECT_PATH_SET_DISK,
-    GET_STAGE_DECODE, GET_STAGE_METADATA_CACHE_LOOKUP, GET_STAGE_METADATA_RESOLVE, GET_STAGE_RANGE, GET_STAGE_READER_SETUP,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_CONFLICTING_METADATA, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_DELETED, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_NOT_INLINE,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_REMOTE,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_TRANSFORMED,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DELETE_MARKER, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_ERROR,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_UNSAFE_REQUEST, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VALID_QUORUM,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VERSION_MATCH_QUORUM, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_VERSION_NOT_FOUND,
+    GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_CORRUPT, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_DISK_NOT_FOUND, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_ERROR,
+    GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_IGNORED, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_NOT_FOUND, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_VALID,
+    GET_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_NOT_FOUND, GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING, GET_OBJECT_PATH_DIRECT_MEMORY,
+    GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META, GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX, GET_OBJECT_PATH_SET_DISK, GET_STAGE_DECODE,
+    GET_STAGE_METADATA_CACHE_LOOKUP, GET_STAGE_METADATA_RESOLVE, GET_STAGE_RANGE, GET_STAGE_READER_SETUP,
    GET_STAGE_READER_SETUP_DROP_PENDING, GET_STAGE_READER_SETUP_SCHEDULE, GET_STAGE_READER_SETUP_WAIT_QUORUM,
    GET_STAGE_READER_TASK_BITROT_READER_INIT, GET_STAGE_READER_TASK_FILE_OPEN, GET_STAGE_READER_TASK_READER_CONSTRUCTION,
    GetObjectFailureReason, classify_disk_error, get_stage_timer_if_enabled, record_get_object_pipeline_failure,
@@ -173,11 +180,13 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) enum GetCodecStreamingReaderBuildOutcome {
    Fallback(GetCodecStreamingFallbackReason),
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(in crate::set_disk) struct MultipartCodecStreamingReader {
    pub(in crate::set_disk) readers: VecDeque<Box<dyn AsyncRead + Unpin + Send + Sync>>,
 }

 impl MultipartCodecStreamingReader {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) fn new(readers: Vec<Box<dyn AsyncRead + Unpin + Send + Sync>>) -> Self {
        Self {
            readers: VecDeque::from(readers),
@@ -652,36 +661,15 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) fn metadata_early_stop_candidate_matches(left: &FileInfo
        && left.erasure.distribution == right.erasure.distribution
 }

-pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn data_read_early_stop_inline_body_verified(
+pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(
    bucket: &str,
    object: &str,
    candidate: &FileInfo,
    parts_metadata: &[FileInfo],
    disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
-) -> bool {
-    if !candidate.inline_data()
-        || candidate.is_compressed()
-        || candidate
-            .metadata
-            .keys()
-            .any(|key| rustfs_utils::http::is_object_encryption_marker(key))
-        || candidate.is_remote()
-        || candidate.deleted
-        || candidate.size <= 0
-        || candidate.parts.len() != 1
-        || !candidate.has_valid_erasure_geometry()
-    {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    let Ok(object_size) = usize::try_from(candidate.size) else {
-        return false;
-    };
-    if candidate.parts.first().is_none_or(|part| part.size != object_size) {
-        return false;
-    }
-    if !can_try_inline_data_shards_direct(object_size, candidate.erasure.block_size) {
-        return false;
+) -> Option<&'static str> {
+    if let Some(reason) = data_read_early_stop_inline_candidate_miss_reason(candidate) {
+        return Some(reason);
    }

    let Ok(erasure) = coding::Erasure::try_new_with_options(
@@ -690,18 +678,21 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn data_read_early_stop_inline_body_verified(
        candidate.erasure.block_size,
        candidate.uses_legacy_checksum,
    ) else {
-        return false;
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY);
    };
-    let Some(data_files) =
-        collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index(parts_metadata, candidate, erasure.data_shards, |index| {
+    let data_files =
+        match collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index_or_reason(parts_metadata, candidate, erasure.data_shards, |index| {
            disks.get(index).is_some_and(Option::is_some)
-        })
-    else {
-        return false;
-    };
+        }) {
+            Ok(data_files) => data_files,
+            Err(reason) => return Some(reason),
+        };

    let Some(part) = candidate.parts.first() else {
-        return false;
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE);
+    };
+    let Ok(object_size) = usize::try_from(candidate.size) else {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE);
    };
    let checksum_info = candidate.erasure.get_checksum_info(part.number);
    let checksum_algo = if candidate.uses_legacy_checksum && checksum_info.algorithm == HashAlgorithm::HighwayHash256S {
@@ -721,12 +712,111 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn data_read_early_stop_inline_body_verified(
    let Ok(mut readers) =
        build_inline_bitrot_readers_from_refs(&data_files, bucket, object, read_length, shard_size, &checksum_algo, false).await
    else {
-        return false;
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY);
    };

-    try_read_inline_data_shards_direct(&mut readers, erasure.data_shards, read_length, object_size)
-        .await
-        .is_some_and(|body| body.len() == object_size)
+    match try_read_inline_data_shards_direct(&mut readers, erasure.data_shards, read_length, object_size).await {
+        Some(body) if body.len() == object_size => None,
+        _ => Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY),
+    }
+}
+
+fn data_read_early_stop_inline_candidate_miss_reason(candidate: &FileInfo) -> Option<&'static str> {
+    // `inline_data` excludes remote objects; this diagnostic reports them separately.
+    if !rustfs_utils::http::contains_key_str(&candidate.metadata, rustfs_utils::http::SUFFIX_INLINE_DATA) {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_NOT_INLINE);
+    }
+    if candidate.is_compressed()
+        || candidate
+            .metadata
+            .keys()
+            .any(|key| rustfs_utils::http::is_object_encryption_marker(key))
+    {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_TRANSFORMED);
+    }
+    if candidate.is_remote() {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_REMOTE);
+    }
+    if candidate.deleted {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_DELETED);
+    }
+    if candidate.size <= 0 {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE);
+    }
+    if candidate.parts.len() != 1 {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE);
+    }
+    if !candidate.has_valid_erasure_geometry() {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY);
+    }
+
+    let Ok(object_size) = usize::try_from(candidate.size) else {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE);
+    };
+    if candidate.parts.first().is_none_or(|part| part.size != object_size) {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE);
+    }
+    if !can_try_inline_data_shards_direct(object_size, candidate.erasure.block_size) {
+        return Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE);
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+fn data_read_inline_missing_shards_are_pending(
+    candidate: &FileInfo,
+    parts_metadata: &[FileInfo],
+    errors: &[Option<DiskError>],
+    disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
+    fanout_order: &[usize],
+    scheduled_fanout_len: usize,
+) -> bool {
+    let Ok(erasure) = coding::Erasure::try_new_with_options(
+        candidate.erasure.data_blocks,
+        candidate.erasure.parity_blocks,
+        candidate.erasure.block_size,
+        candidate.uses_legacy_checksum,
+    ) else {
+        return false;
+    };
+    let distribution = &candidate.erasure.distribution;
+    let mut data_shards_seen_or_pending = vec![false; erasure.data_shards];
+    let mut missing_pending_data_shards = 0usize;
+
+    for (disk_index, file_info) in parts_metadata.iter().enumerate() {
+        let Some(&block_index) = distribution.get(disk_index) else {
+            return false;
+        };
+        if block_index == 0 || block_index > erasure.data_shards {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if !disks.get(disk_index).is_some_and(Option::is_some) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        let data_slot = block_index - 1;
+        if file_info.name.is_empty() {
+            let scheduled_and_not_failed = fanout_order
+                .get(..scheduled_fanout_len)
+                .is_some_and(|scheduled_disks| scheduled_disks.contains(&disk_index))
+                && errors.get(disk_index).is_some_and(Option::is_none);
+            if scheduled_and_not_failed {
+                data_shards_seen_or_pending[data_slot] = true;
+                missing_pending_data_shards = missing_pending_data_shards.saturating_add(1);
+                continue;
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+        if file_info.erasure.index != block_index
+            || !file_info.has_valid_erasure_geometry()
+            || !metadata_early_stop_candidate_matches(file_info, candidate)
+            || file_info.data.as_ref().is_none_or(|data| data.is_empty())
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        data_shards_seen_or_pending[data_slot] = true;
+    }
+
+    missing_pending_data_shards > 0 && data_shards_seen_or_pending.into_iter().all(|seen_or_pending| seen_or_pending)
 }

 pub(in crate::set_disk) fn classify_metadata_response_error(err: &DiskError) -> &'static str {
@@ -1758,6 +1848,7 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn create_bitrot_readers_until_quorum_all_shards(
 }

 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn create_bitrot_readers_until_quorum(
    files: &[FileInfo],
    disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
@@ -2048,6 +2139,7 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn create_data_block_bitrot_readers(
    setup
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn collect_read_multiple_results<F>(
    tasks: Vec<F>,
    read_quorum: usize,
@@ -2364,6 +2456,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
        let bucket: Arc<str> = Arc::from(bucket);
        let object: Arc<str> = Arc::from(object);
        let version_id: Arc<str> = Arc::from(version_id);
+        let slowtail_fault = get_metadata_slowtail_fault_request(bucket.as_ref(), object.as_ref(), read_data);
        let futures = disks.iter().enumerate().map(|(disk_index, disk)| {
            let disk = disk.clone();
            let task_opts = opts;
@@ -2371,10 +2464,14 @@ impl SetDisks {
            let bucket = bucket.clone();
            let object = object.clone();
            let version_id = version_id.clone();
+            let slowtail_fault = slowtail_fault.clone();
            tokio::spawn(async move {
                let response_start = observe.then(Instant::now);
                let result = if let Some(disk) = disk {
                    Self::record_read_version_call(&object, disk_index);
+                    if let Some(delay) = slowtail_fault.as_ref().and_then(|fault| fault.delay_for_disk(disk_index)) {
+                        tokio::time::sleep(delay).await;
+                    }
                    disk.read_version(&org_bucket, &bucket, &object, &version_id, &task_opts)
                        .await
                } else {
@@ -2469,6 +2566,8 @@ impl SetDisks {
        let mut next_fanout_index = 0usize;
        let mut scheduled_count = 0usize;
        let mut force_full_wait = false;
+        let mut final_miss_reason_override = None;
+        let slowtail_fault = get_metadata_slowtail_fault_request(bucket.as_ref(), object.as_ref(), read_data);
        let spawn_read_version =
            |join_set: &mut JoinSet<(usize, disk::error::Result<FileInfo>, Duration)>, index: usize, disk: Option<DiskStore>| {
                let task_opts = opts;
@@ -2476,6 +2575,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
                let bucket = bucket.clone();
                let object = object.clone();
                let version_id = version_id.clone();
+                let slowtail_fault = slowtail_fault.clone();
                join_set.spawn(async move {
                    let response_start = Instant::now();
                    let result = if let Some(disk) = disk {
@@ -2484,6 +2584,9 @@ impl SetDisks {
                        Self::record_read_version_call(&object, index);
                        #[cfg(test)]
                        Self::read_version_fanout_barrier(&object, index).await;
+                        if let Some(delay) = slowtail_fault.as_ref().and_then(|fault| fault.delay_for_disk(index)) {
+                            tokio::time::sleep(delay).await;
+                        }
                        disk.read_version(&org_bucket, &bucket, &object, &version_id, &task_opts)
                            .await
                    } else {
@@ -2511,11 +2614,20 @@ impl SetDisks {
        }

        while let Some(result) = join_set.join_next().await {
+            let mut defer_pending_inline_data_shard = false;
            match result {
                Ok((index, res, elapsed)) => match res {
                    Ok(file_info) => {
                        observations.push(MetadataFanoutObservation::from_file_info(&file_info, elapsed));
                        accumulator.observe_file_info(&file_info);
+                        if bounded_fanout
+                            && read_data
+                            && !force_full_wait
+                            && let Some(reason) = data_read_early_stop_inline_candidate_miss_reason(&file_info)
+                        {
+                            force_full_wait = true;
+                            final_miss_reason_override.get_or_insert(reason);
+                        }
                        if let Some(slot) = ress.get_mut(index) {
                            *slot = file_info;
                        }
@@ -2541,17 +2653,43 @@ impl SetDisks {
                    .or_else(|| accumulator.version_early_stop_decision())
            {
                let should_return_early = if read_data {
-                    let allow_data_read_early_stop = match accumulator.candidate.as_ref() {
-                        Some(candidate) => {
-                            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_verified(bucket.as_ref(), object.as_ref(), candidate, &ress, disks)
-                                .await
+                    match accumulator.candidate.as_ref() {
+                        Some(candidate) => match data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(
+                            bucket.as_ref(),
+                            object.as_ref(),
+                            candidate,
+                            &ress,
+                            disks,
+                        )
+                        .await
+                        {
+                            None => true,
+                            Some(reason) => {
+                                final_miss_reason_override = Some(reason);
+                                if bounded_fanout
+                                    && reason == GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD
+                                    && data_read_inline_missing_shards_are_pending(
+                                        candidate,
+                                        &ress,
+                                        &errors,
+                                        disks,
+                                        &fanout_order,
+                                        next_fanout_index,
+                                    )
+                                {
+                                    defer_pending_inline_data_shard = true;
+                                } else {
+                                    force_full_wait = true;
+                                }
+                                false
+                            }
+                        },
+                        None => {
+                            force_full_wait = true;
+                            final_miss_reason_override = Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM);
+                            false
                        }
-                        None => false,
-                    };
-                    if !allow_data_read_early_stop {
-                        force_full_wait = true;
                    }
-                    allow_data_read_early_stop
                } else {
                    true
                };
@@ -2588,6 +2726,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
            let pending_responses = join_set.len();
            let should_hedge_single_pending_data_read = read_data
                && !force_full_wait
+                && !defer_pending_inline_data_shard
                && pending_responses == 1
                && accumulator.can_still_reach_early_stop_with_pending(pending_responses);
            if bounded_fanout && force_full_wait {
@@ -2600,6 +2739,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
                    next_fanout_index = next_fanout_index.saturating_add(1);
                }
            } else if bounded_fanout
+                && !defer_pending_inline_data_shard
                && next_fanout_index < disks.len()
                && (!accumulator.can_still_reach_early_stop_with_pending(pending_responses)
                    || should_hedge_single_pending_data_read)
@@ -2613,7 +2753,12 @@ impl SetDisks {
            }
        }

-        rustfs_io_metrics::record_get_object_metadata_early_stop_miss(metrics_path, accumulator.final_miss_reason());
+        let accumulator_miss_reason = accumulator.final_miss_reason();
+        let final_miss_reason = match (final_miss_reason_override, accumulator_miss_reason) {
+            (Some(reason), GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM) => reason,
+            _ => accumulator_miss_reason,
+        };
+        rustfs_io_metrics::record_get_object_metadata_early_stop_miss(metrics_path, final_miss_reason);
        rustfs_io_metrics::record_get_object_metadata_early_stop_saved_responses(metrics_path, 0);
        rustfs_io_metrics::record_get_object_metadata_fanout_lifecycle(metrics_path, scheduled_count, scheduled_count, 0);
        let diagnostics = MetadataFanoutDiagnostics::new(fanout_start.elapsed(), observations);
@@ -2842,6 +2987,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
        (meta_file_infos, errs)
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn read_multiple_files(
        disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
        req: ReadMultipleReq,
@@ -2875,14 +3021,11 @@ impl SetDisks {
            });
        }

-        let (ress, errors) = match collect_read_multiple_results(futures, read_quorum).await {
+        let (ress, _errors) = match collect_read_multiple_results(futures, read_quorum).await {
            Ok(collected) => collected,
            Err(()) => return empty_quorum_result(),
        };

-        // debug!("ReadMultipleResp ress {:?}", ress);
-        // debug!("ReadMultipleResp errors {:?}", errors);
-
        let mut ret = Vec::with_capacity(req.files.len());

        for want in req.files.iter() {
@@ -3021,6 +3164,7 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) struct RenameDataCommit {
    pub(in crate::set_disk) committed_file_info: FileInfo,
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 type RenameDataLegacyTuple = (
    Vec<Option<DiskStore>>,
    RenameConvergence,
@@ -3030,6 +3174,7 @@ type RenameDataLegacyTuple = (
 );

 impl RenameDataCommit {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    fn into_legacy_tuple(self) -> RenameDataLegacyTuple {
        (
            self.online_disks,
@@ -3148,6 +3293,7 @@ impl SetDisks {

    #[tracing::instrument(level = "debug", skip(disks, file_infos))]
    #[allow(clippy::type_complexity)]
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn rename_data(
        disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
        src_bucket: &str,
@@ -4960,6 +5106,7 @@ fn is_cleanup_not_found(e: &DiskError) -> bool {
 /// normalized to `DiskNotFound`: a panic is not a "disk absent" condition and
 /// must not be silently swallowed as an ignorable error (fixes the historical
 /// `Unexpected`/`DiskNotFound` misclassification).
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn map_cleanup_join_result(joined: std::result::Result<Option<DiskError>, tokio::task::JoinError>) -> Option<DiskError> {
    match joined {
        Ok(res) => res,
@@ -5184,6 +5331,7 @@ pub(in crate::set_disk) mod rename_fanout_barrier_phase {
    /// The per-disk old-data-dir cleanup phase of the commit fan-out.
    pub const CLEANUP: &str = "cleanup";
    /// The per-disk `read_version` phase of metadata read fan-out.
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub const READ_VERSION: &str = "read_version";
 }

@@ -5621,6 +5769,130 @@ mod tests {
        (dirs, disks)
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn metadata_slowtail_fault_delay_parses_and_filters_request() {
+        temp_env::with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS, Some("25")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS, Some("1,3")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET, Some("bench-bucket")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX, Some("objects/")),
+            ],
+            || {
+                assert_eq!(
+                    get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("bench-bucket", "objects/000001", 3, true),
+                    Some(Duration::from_millis(25))
+                );
+                assert!(get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("bench-bucket", "objects/000001", 2, true).is_none());
+                assert!(get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("other-bucket", "objects/000001", 3, true).is_none());
+                assert!(get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("bench-bucket", "other/000001", 3, true).is_none());
+                assert!(get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("bench-bucket", "objects/000001", 3, false).is_none());
+            },
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn metadata_slowtail_fault_delay_disables_invalid_disk_list() {
+        temp_env::with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS, Some("25")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS, Some("1,nope")),
+            ],
+            || {
+                assert!(get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay("bucket", "object", 1, true).is_none());
+            },
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+    async fn metadata_slowtail_fault_delays_only_data_read_metadata_task() {
+        const DISKS: usize = 4;
+        let bucket = "metadata-slowtail-fault-bucket";
+        let object = "objects/metadata-slowtail-fault-object";
+        let (dirs, disks) = call_counter_local_disks(bucket, DISKS).await;
+        install_metadata_fanout_fileinfo(&disks, bucket, object, None).await;
+
+        temp_env::async_with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("false")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS, Some("150")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS, Some("3")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET, Some(bucket)),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX, Some("objects/")),
+            ],
+            async {
+                let read_without_data =
+                    SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(&disks, bucket, bucket, object, "", false, false, false, true, 2);
+                tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_millis(100), read_without_data)
+                    .await
+                    .expect("non-data metadata fanout must not be delayed by the data-read slowtail hook")
+                    .expect("metadata fanout without read_data should resolve");
+
+                let mut read_with_data = Box::pin(SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(
+                    &disks, bucket, bucket, object, "", true, false, false, true, 2,
+                ));
+                assert!(
+                    tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_millis(40), &mut read_with_data)
+                        .await
+                        .is_err(),
+                    "data-read metadata fanout must wait for the injected slow read_version response"
+                );
+                let (parts_metadata, errs, diagnostics) = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(2), read_with_data)
+                    .await
+                    .expect("injected slowtail should eventually complete")
+                    .expect("data-read metadata fanout should resolve");
+                assert_eq!(parts_metadata.iter().filter(|fi| fi.name == object).count(), DISKS);
+                assert!(errs.iter().all(Option::is_none));
+                assert_eq!(diagnostics.total_responses(), DISKS);
+            },
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        drop(dirs);
+    }
+
+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+    async fn metadata_slowtail_fault_delays_early_stop_metadata_task() {
+        const DISKS: usize = 4;
+        let bucket = "metadata-slowtail-early-stop-bucket";
+        let object = "objects/metadata-slowtail-early-stop-object";
+        let (dirs, disks) = call_counter_local_disks(bucket, DISKS).await;
+        install_metadata_fanout_fileinfo(&disks, bucket, object, None).await;
+
+        temp_env::async_with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("true")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("true")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT, Some("false")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS, Some("150")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS, Some("3")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET, Some(bucket)),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX, Some("objects/")),
+            ],
+            async {
+                let mut read_with_data = Box::pin(SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(
+                    &disks, bucket, bucket, object, "", true, false, false, true, 2,
+                ));
+                assert!(
+                    tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_millis(40), &mut read_with_data)
+                        .await
+                        .is_err(),
+                    "early-stop metadata fanout must still wait for the injected slow response after fallback to full wait"
+                );
+                let (parts_metadata, errs, diagnostics) = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(2), read_with_data)
+                    .await
+                    .expect("injected early-stop slowtail should eventually complete")
+                    .expect("early-stop metadata fanout should resolve");
+                assert_eq!(parts_metadata.iter().filter(|fi| fi.name == object).count(), DISKS);
+                assert!(errs.iter().all(Option::is_none));
+                assert_eq!(diagnostics.total_responses(), DISKS);
+            },
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        drop(dirs);
+    }
+
    /// Demo / regression guard for the backlog#1325 per-disk call counters.
    ///
    /// The metadata fan-out issues each `read_version` inside its own
@@ -5752,9 +6024,20 @@ mod tests {
        object: &str,
        payload: &[u8],
        uses_legacy_checksum: bool,
+    ) -> Vec<FileInfo> {
+        inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfos_with_geometry(bucket, object, payload, uses_legacy_checksum, 2, 2).await
+    }
+
+    async fn inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfos_with_geometry(
+        bucket: &str,
+        object: &str,
+        payload: &[u8],
+        uses_legacy_checksum: bool,
+        data_shards: usize,
+        parity_shards: usize,
    ) -> Vec<FileInfo> {
        let distribution_key = metadata_distribution_key(bucket, object);
-        let mut base = FileInfo::new(&distribution_key, 2, 2);
+        let mut base = FileInfo::new(&distribution_key, data_shards, parity_shards);
        base.volume = bucket.to_string();
        base.name = object.to_string();
        base.size = i64::try_from(payload.len()).expect("test payload should fit i64");
@@ -5817,6 +6100,21 @@ mod tests {
        install_inline_metadata_fanout_files(disks, bucket, object, files).await;
    }

+    async fn install_inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfo_with_geometry(
+        disks: &[Option<DiskStore>],
+        bucket: &str,
+        object: &str,
+        payload: &[u8],
+        data_shards: usize,
+        parity_shards: usize,
+        mutate: impl FnOnce(&mut [FileInfo]),
+    ) {
+        let mut files =
+            inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfos_with_geometry(bucket, object, payload, false, data_shards, parity_shards).await;
+        mutate(&mut files);
+        install_inline_metadata_fanout_files(disks, bucket, object, files).await;
+    }
+
    async fn install_inline_metadata_fanout_files(disks: &[Option<DiskStore>], bucket: &str, object: &str, files: Vec<FileInfo>) {
        let distribution = files
            .first()
@@ -6037,6 +6335,118 @@ mod tests {
        drop(dirs);
    }

+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+    async fn bounded_metadata_early_stop_waits_for_pending_inline_data_shard() {
+        const DISKS: usize = 6;
+        const DATA_SHARDS: usize = 4;
+        const PARITY_SHARDS: usize = 2;
+        let bucket = "bounded-inline-data-get-pending-shard-bucket";
+        let object =
+            object_with_initial_data_shards(bucket, "bounded-inline-data-get-pending-shard-object", DATA_SHARDS, DATA_SHARDS);
+        let (dirs, disks) = call_counter_local_disks(bucket, DISKS).await;
+        install_inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfo_with_geometry(
+            &disks,
+            bucket,
+            &object,
+            b"verified inline payload",
+            DATA_SHARDS,
+            PARITY_SHARDS,
+            |_| {},
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        temp_env::async_with_vars(
+            [
+                ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
+                ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
+                ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", Some("true")),
+            ],
+            async {
+                let fanout_order = bounded_metadata_fanout_order(bucket, &object, DISKS, PARITY_SHARDS);
+                let distribution_key = metadata_distribution_key(bucket, &object);
+                let distribution = FileInfo::new(&distribution_key, DATA_SHARDS, PARITY_SHARDS)
+                    .erasure
+                    .distribution;
+                let paused_data_disk = *fanout_order
+                    .iter()
+                    .take(DATA_SHARDS)
+                    .find(|disk_index| {
+                        distribution
+                            .get(**disk_index)
+                            .is_some_and(|block_index| (1..=DATA_SHARDS).contains(block_index))
+                    })
+                    .expect("initial fanout should include a data shard to pause");
+                let hedged_parity_disk = fanout_order[DATA_SHARDS];
+                let unscheduled_parity_disk = fanout_order[DATA_SHARDS + 1];
+
+                let barrier = rename_fanout_barrier::arm(&object, paused_data_disk, rename_fanout_barrier::PHASE_READ_VERSION);
+                let tracker = rename_fanout_barrier::observe_tasks(&object);
+                let calls = disk_call_counters::observe(&object);
+                let disks_for_read = disks.clone();
+                let object_for_read = object.clone();
+                let mut read = tokio::spawn(async move {
+                    SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(
+                        &disks_for_read,
+                        bucket,
+                        bucket,
+                        &object_for_read,
+                        "",
+                        true,
+                        false,
+                        false,
+                        true,
+                        PARITY_SHARDS,
+                    )
+                    .await
+                });
+
+                tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, barrier.wait_until_paused())
+                    .await
+                    .expect("initial data shard should pause before returning");
+                tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, async {
+                    while calls.for_disk(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION, hedged_parity_disk) == 0 {
+                        tokio::task::yield_now().await;
+                    }
+                })
+                .await
+                .expect("bounded fanout should hedge one parity disk while the data shard is pending");
+
+                assert!(
+                    tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, &mut read).await.is_err(),
+                    "inline data-read early-stop must wait for a scheduled missing data shard instead of forcing full wait"
+                );
+
+                barrier.release();
+                let (parts_metadata, errs, diagnostics) = read
+                    .await
+                    .expect("metadata read task should not panic")
+                    .expect("pending data shard should let the inline verifier finish");
+
+                assert_eq!(
+                    calls.total(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION),
+                    5,
+                    "pending data-shard defer should not schedule the final parity disk"
+                );
+                assert_eq!(
+                    calls.for_disk(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION, unscheduled_parity_disk),
+                    0,
+                    "the remaining parity disk must stay unissued when pending data verification succeeds"
+                );
+                assert_eq!(
+                    tracker.running(),
+                    0,
+                    "early-stop should drain spawned read_version tasks before returning"
+                );
+                assert_eq!(diagnostics.total_responses(), 5);
+                assert_eq!(parts_metadata.iter().filter(|fi| fi.name == object).count(), 5);
+                assert!(errs.iter().all(Option::is_none));
+            },
+        )
+        .await;
+
+        drop(dirs);
+    }
+
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn data_read_early_stop_verifies_legacy_inline_checksum_payload() {
        let bucket = "legacy-inline-data-get-fanout-bucket";
@@ -6067,11 +6477,133 @@ mod tests {
            .clone();

        assert!(
-            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_verified(bucket, object, &candidate, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &parts_metadata, &disks)
+                .await
+                .is_none(),
            "legacy inline metadata must use the legacy bitrot shard sizing and checksum algorithm"
        );
    }

+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn data_read_early_stop_reports_inline_miss_reasons() {
+        let bucket = "inline-data-get-miss-reason-bucket";
+        let object = "inline-data-get-miss-reason-object";
+        let payload = b"verified inline payload";
+        let (_dirs, disks) = call_counter_local_disks(bucket, 4).await;
+        let files = inline_metadata_fanout_fileinfos_with_mode(bucket, object, payload, false).await;
+        let distribution = files
+            .first()
+            .map(|file| file.erasure.distribution.clone())
+            .expect("fixture should include metadata");
+        let order = bounded_metadata_fanout_order(bucket, object, 4, 2);
+        let mut parts_metadata = vec![FileInfo::default(); 4];
+        for disk_index in order.into_iter().take(3) {
+            let block_index = distribution
+                .get(disk_index)
+                .copied()
+                .expect("fixture distribution should cover every disk");
+            parts_metadata[disk_index] = files
+                .get(block_index.checked_sub(1).expect("erasure block indexes are one-based"))
+                .expect("fixture should include every distributed shard")
+                .clone();
+        }
+        let candidate = parts_metadata
+            .iter()
+            .find(|file| file.name == object)
+            .expect("fixture should include observed metadata")
+            .clone();
+        let data_disk = distribution
+            .iter()
+            .position(|block_index| *block_index == 1)
+            .expect("fixture distribution should include first data shard");
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            None
+        );
+
+        let mut not_inline = candidate.clone();
+        rustfs_utils::http::remove_str(&mut not_inline.metadata, rustfs_utils::http::SUFFIX_INLINE_DATA);
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &not_inline, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_NOT_INLINE)
+        );
+
+        let mut remote = candidate.clone();
+        remote.transition_status = TRANSITION_COMPLETE.to_string();
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &remote, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_REMOTE)
+        );
+
+        let mut transformed = candidate.clone();
+        rustfs_utils::http::insert_str(&mut transformed.metadata, rustfs_utils::http::SUFFIX_COMPRESSION, "zstd".to_string());
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &transformed, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_TRANSFORMED)
+        );
+
+        let mut deleted = candidate.clone();
+        deleted.deleted = true;
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &deleted, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_DELETED)
+        );
+
+        let mut zero_size = candidate.clone();
+        zero_size.size = 0;
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &zero_size, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_SIZE)
+        );
+
+        let mut multipart = candidate.clone();
+        multipart.parts.push(multipart.parts[0].clone());
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &multipart, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_PART_SHAPE)
+        );
+
+        let mut invalid_geometry = candidate.clone();
+        invalid_geometry.erasure.data_blocks = 0;
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &invalid_geometry, &parts_metadata, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY)
+        );
+
+        let mut missing_shard = parts_metadata.clone();
+        missing_shard[data_disk] = FileInfo::default();
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &missing_shard, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD)
+        );
+
+        let mut missing_payload = parts_metadata.clone();
+        missing_payload[data_disk].data = None;
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &missing_payload, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD)
+        );
+
+        let mut identity_mismatch = parts_metadata.clone();
+        identity_mismatch[data_disk].version_id = Some(Uuid::new_v4());
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &identity_mismatch, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH)
+        );
+
+        let mut corrupt = parts_metadata.clone();
+        if let Some(data) = corrupt[data_disk].data.as_mut() {
+            let mut corrupt_data = data.to_vec();
+            corrupt_data[0] ^= 0x01;
+            *data = Bytes::from(corrupt_data);
+        }
+        assert_eq!(
+            data_read_early_stop_inline_body_miss_reason(bucket, object, &candidate, &corrupt, &disks).await,
+            Some(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY)
+        );
+    }
+
    #[test]
    #[serial_test::serial]
    fn metadata_fanout_lifecycle_records_real_early_stop_abort() {
@@ -6161,7 +6693,7 @@ mod tests {
                &[
                    ("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META),
                    ("decision", "miss"),
-                    ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM),
+                    ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY),
                ],
            ),
            1,
@@ -6173,7 +6705,7 @@ mod tests {
                &[
                    ("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX),
                    ("decision", "miss"),
-                    ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_QUORUM),
+                    ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_BODY_VERIFY),
                ],
            ),
            0,
@@ -6708,7 +7240,7 @@ mod tests {
    }

    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
-    async fn bounded_non_inline_data_get_hedges_then_waits_for_full_fanout() {
+    async fn bounded_non_inline_data_get_immediately_forces_full_fanout() {
        const DISKS: usize = 4;
        let bucket = "bounded-data-get-hedge-bucket";
        let object = "bounded-data-get-hedge-object";
@@ -6739,7 +7271,7 @@ mod tests {
                    }
                })
                .await
-                .expect("bounded data-read fanout should hedge by starting the spare disk");
+                .expect("bounded non-inline data-read fanout should immediately schedule the spare disk");

                let pending = tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, &mut read).await;
                assert!(
@@ -6755,7 +7287,7 @@ mod tests {
                assert_eq!(
                    calls.total(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION),
                    DISKS as u64,
-                    "bounded data-read fanout should issue the paused disk plus one spare hedge"
+                    "bounded non-inline data-read fanout should issue the paused disk plus the remaining spare"
                );
                assert_eq!(diagnostics.total_responses(), DISKS);
                assert_eq!(parts_metadata.iter().filter(|fi| fi.name == object).count(), DISKS);
@@ -6768,7 +7300,7 @@ mod tests {
    }

    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn bounded_metadata_early_stop_defaults_keep_data_get_full_fanout() {
+    async fn bounded_metadata_early_stop_defaults_keep_non_inline_data_get_full_fanout() {
        const DISKS: usize = 4;
        let bucket = "bounded-data-get-default-bucket";
        let object = "bounded-data-get-default-object";
@@ -6782,16 +7314,42 @@ mod tests {
                ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", None::<&str>),
            ],
            async {
+                let barrier = rename_fanout_barrier::arm(object, 2, rename_fanout_barrier::PHASE_READ_VERSION);
                let calls = disk_call_counters::observe(object);
-                let (parts_metadata, errs, diagnostics) =
-                    SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(&disks, bucket, bucket, object, "", true, false, false, true, 2)
+                let disks_for_read = disks.clone();
+                let mut read = tokio::spawn(async move {
+                    SetDisks::read_all_fileinfo_observed(&disks_for_read, bucket, bucket, object, "", true, false, false, true, 2)
                        .await
-                        .expect("default data-read metadata should resolve");
+                });
+
+                tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, barrier.wait_until_paused())
+                    .await
+                    .expect("default bounded non-inline read should schedule the paused metadata task");
+                tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, async {
+                    while calls.for_disk(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION, 3) == 0 {
+                        tokio::task::yield_now().await;
+                    }
+                })
+                .await
+                .expect(
+                    "default bounded non-inline read should immediately force full fanout after the first non-inline response",
+                );
+
+                let pending = tokio::time::timeout(BARRIER_PAUSE_GUARD, &mut read).await;
+                assert!(
+                    pending.is_err(),
+                    "default non-inline data reads must not return before the paused metadata response"
+                );
+                barrier.release();
+                let (parts_metadata, errs, diagnostics) = read
+                    .await
+                    .expect("metadata read task should not panic")
+                    .expect("default data-read metadata should resolve");

                assert_eq!(
                    calls.total(disk_call_counters::KIND_READ_VERSION),
                    DISKS as u64,
-                    "default GET data-read metadata must keep full fanout for read-failure tolerance"
+                    "default non-inline GET data-read metadata must keep full fanout without waiting for a quorum miss first"
                );
                assert_eq!(diagnostics.total_responses(), DISKS);
                assert_eq!(parts_metadata.iter().filter(|fi| fi.name == object).count(), DISKS);
@@ -42,12 +42,20 @@ impl<'a> SetDisksCtx<'a> {
    }

    /// The borrowed core, for state not yet fronted by a typed accessor.
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn core(&self) -> &'a SetDisks {
        self.core
    }

    // --- Immutable topology / config (fixed after construction) ---

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn set_index(&self) -> usize {
        self.core.set_index
    }
@@ -56,14 +64,26 @@ impl<'a> SetDisksCtx<'a> {
        self.core.pool_index
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn set_drive_count(&self) -> usize {
        self.core.set_drive_count
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn default_parity_count(&self) -> usize {
        self.core.default_parity_count
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn set_endpoints(&self) -> &'a [Endpoint] {
        &self.core.set_endpoints
    }
@@ -72,6 +92,10 @@ impl<'a> SetDisksCtx<'a> {
        &self.core.format
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn locker_owner(&self) -> &'a str {
        &self.core.locker_owner
    }
@@ -84,6 +108,10 @@ impl<'a> SetDisksCtx<'a> {

    // --- Locker trio ---

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "SetDisks split seam (backlog#815) with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(crate) fn lockers(&self) -> &'a [Arc<dyn LockClient>] {
        &self.core.lockers
    }
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 //! - `metadata.rs`, `replication.rs`, `shard_source.rs` — supporting helpers.

 // #730: SetDisks still hosts staged read/heal/write migration helpers.
-#![allow(dead_code)]
 #![allow(unused_imports)]
 #![allow(unused_variables)]

@@ -59,7 +58,10 @@ use crate::client::{object_api_utils::get_raw_etag, transition_api::ReaderImpl};
 use crate::cluster::rpc::heal_bucket_local_on_disks;
 use crate::data_usage::record_compression_total_memory;
 use crate::diagnostics::get::{
-    GET_CODEC_STREAMING_OBJECT_CLASS_PLAIN_SINGLE_PART, GET_OBJECT_PATH_BODY_CACHE, GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING,
+    GET_CODEC_STREAMING_OBJECT_CLASS_PLAIN_SINGLE_PART, GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD,
+    GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD, GET_OBJECT_PATH_BODY_CACHE, GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING,
    GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING_LEGACY_ENGINE, GET_OBJECT_PATH_CODEC_STREAMING_RUSTFS_ENGINE, GET_OBJECT_PATH_DIRECT_MEMORY,
    GET_OBJECT_PATH_EMPTY, GET_OBJECT_PATH_INLINE_DIRECT, GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META, GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX,
    GET_OBJECT_PATH_REMOTE_TRANSITION, GET_OBJECT_PATH_SET_DISK, GET_STAGE_DECODE, GET_STAGE_EMIT, GET_STAGE_INLINE_PREPARE,
@@ -100,9 +102,7 @@ use crate::storage_api_contracts::{
 };
 use crate::store::utils::is_reserved_or_invalid_bucket;
 use crate::{
-    bucket::lifecycle::bucket_lifecycle_ops::{
-        LifecycleOps, gen_transition_objname, get_transitioned_object_reader_with_tier_manager, put_restore_opts,
-    },
+    bucket::lifecycle::bucket_lifecycle_ops::{LifecycleOps, get_transitioned_object_reader_with_tier_manager, put_restore_opts},
    cache_value::metacache_set::{ListPathRawOptions, list_path_raw},
    config::storageclass,
    disk::{
@@ -174,15 +174,14 @@ use std::future::Future;
 use std::hash::{BuildHasher, Hash, Hasher};
 use std::mem::{self};
 use std::pin::Pin;
-use std::sync::OnceLock;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, Ordering};
+use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use std::time::{Instant, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 use std::{
    collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
    io::{Cursor, Write},
    path::Path,
-    sync::Arc,
    time::Duration,
 };
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
@@ -621,7 +620,9 @@ fn adaptive_duplex_buffer_size(object_size: i64) -> usize {
 // Each flag has a corresponding `*_ROLLOUT_PCT` for percentage-based gradual rollout.
 // ============================================================================

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 const DISK_ONLINE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(1);
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 const DISK_HEALTH_CACHE_TTL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(750);
 const GET_OBJECT_METADATA_CACHE_TTL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(2); // Increased from 250ms to 2s
 const DEFAULT_GET_OBJECT_METADATA_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES: usize = 4096; // Increased from 1024 to 4096
@@ -689,22 +690,36 @@ const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_SMALL_OBJECT_DIRECT_MEMORY_THRESHOLD: usize = 128 * 102
 const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE";
 // Enabled by default (backlog#872): the early-stop path only engages for
 // requests `should_allow_metadata_early_stop` classifies as safe (latest-version
-// metadata-only reads by default, without version_id / healing / free-version
-// needs) and still requires a full read-quorum agreement before stopping. Set
+// reads by default, without version_id / healing / free-version needs) and still
+// requires a full read-quorum agreement before stopping. Data-read requests add
+// a separate inline-shard verifier before cancelling the remaining fanout. Set
 // the env var to `false` to fall back to full-wait metadata fanout.
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: bool = true;

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "percentage-rollout facet of the metadata early-stop switch; its predicate has no caller while the sibling enable flag is live (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ROLLOUT_PCT: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ROLLOUT_PCT";
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "percentage-rollout facet of the metadata early-stop switch; its predicate has no caller while the sibling enable flag is live (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ROLLOUT_PCT: u32 = 100;

 const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_VERSION_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_VERSION_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE";
 const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_VERSION_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: bool = false;

 const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE";
-const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: bool = false;
+const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE: bool = true;

 const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT";
-const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT: bool = false;
+const DEFAULT_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT: bool = true;
+
+const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS";
+const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS";
+const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET";
+const ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX: &str = "RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX";

 // --- Multipart Reader-Setup Prefetch Configuration (backlog#870) ---

@@ -906,18 +921,16 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {
            .expect("test should find an object whose initial fanout covers both data shards")
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "test fixture no assertion in this module uses today; the live namesake lives in io_primitives tests (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn bounded_spare_disk_index(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> usize {
        *bounded_metadata_fanout_order(bucket, object, 4, 2)
            .get(3)
            .expect("4-disk test geometry should leave one bounded spare disk")
    }

-    fn bounded_slow_initial_disk_index(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> usize {
-        *bounded_metadata_fanout_order(bucket, object, 4, 2)
-            .get(2)
-            .expect("4-disk test geometry should include a third initial metadata disk")
-    }
-
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn prepared_metadata_is_consumed_exactly_once() {
        let snapshot = GetObjectFileInfo::owned(FileInfo::default(), Vec::new(), Vec::new());
@@ -1036,7 +1049,7 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {

    #[test]
    #[serial_test::serial(body_cache_hook)]
-    fn inline_data_read_early_stop_reader_returns_exact_body() {
+    fn inline_data_read_early_stop_defaults_return_exact_body() {
        let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
            .enable_all()
            .build()
@@ -1068,14 +1081,14 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {

                temp_env::async_with_vars(
                    [
-                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
-                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
-                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", Some("true")),
+                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", None::<&str>),
+                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", None::<&str>),
+                        ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", None::<&str>),
                    ],
                    async {
-                        let slow_initial_disk = bounded_slow_initial_disk_index(bucket, &object);
+                        let slow_parity_disk = bounded_spare_disk_index(bucket, &object);
                        let barrier =
-                            rename_fanout_barrier::arm(&object, slow_initial_disk, rename_fanout_barrier::PHASE_READ_VERSION);
+                            rename_fanout_barrier::arm(&object, slow_parity_disk, rename_fanout_barrier::PHASE_READ_VERSION);
                        let calls = disk_call_counters::observe(&object);
                        let set_disks_for_read = Arc::clone(&set_disks);
                        let opts_for_read = opts.clone();
@@ -1088,10 +1101,10 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {

                        tokio::time::timeout(READ_VERSION_BARRIER_GUARD, barrier.wait_until_paused())
                            .await
-                            .expect("bounded inline GET should pause a slow initial metadata read");
+                            .expect("default inline GET should pause a slow parity metadata read");
                        let mut reader = tokio::time::timeout(READ_VERSION_BARRIER_GUARD, &mut open_reader)
                            .await
-                            .expect("production inline GET should return before the paused metadata response")
+                            .expect("default production inline GET should return before the paused parity metadata response")
                            .expect("inline GET reader task should not panic")
                            .expect("inline GET reader should open");
                        let object_size = reader.object_info.size;
@@ -1112,14 +1125,17 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {

        assert_eq!(object_size, payload.len() as i64);
        assert_eq!(restored, payload);
-        assert_eq!(calls_total, 4, "bounded production GET should schedule the initial quorum plus one spare");
+        assert_eq!(
+            calls_total, 4,
+            "default production inline GET should schedule the initial bounded quorum plus one hedge"
+        );
        assert_eq!(
            recorder.histogram_values(
                "rustfs_io_get_object_metadata_fanout_scheduled",
                &[("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX)]
            ),
            vec![4.0],
-            "bounded production GET should record all scheduled metadata tasks"
+            "default production GET should record all scheduled metadata tasks"
        );
        assert_eq!(
            recorder.histogram_values(
@@ -1127,7 +1143,7 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {
                &[("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX)]
            ),
            vec![3.0],
-            "bounded production GET should record only observed metadata responses as completed"
+            "default production GET should record only observed metadata responses as completed"
        );
        assert_eq!(
            recorder.histogram_values(
@@ -1135,7 +1151,7 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {
                &[("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX)]
            ),
            vec![1.0],
-            "bounded production GET should record the aborted slow metadata task"
+            "default production GET should record the aborted slow parity metadata task"
        );
    }

@@ -1282,9 +1298,9 @@ mod prepared_get_object_metadata_tests {

                    temp_env::async_with_vars(
                        [
-                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
-                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", Some("true")),
-                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", Some("true")),
+                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", None::<&str>),
+                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE", None::<&str>),
+                            ("RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT", None::<&str>),
                        ],
                        async {
                            let calls = disk_call_counters::observe(&object);
@@ -1686,6 +1702,95 @@ fn is_get_metadata_early_stop_bounded_fanout_enabled() -> bool {
    }
 }

+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct GetMetadataSlowtailFaultConfig {
+    delay: Duration,
+    disks: Arc<[usize]>,
+    bucket: Option<String>,
+    object_prefix: Option<String>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct GetMetadataSlowtailFaultRequest {
+    delay: Duration,
+    disks: Arc<[usize]>,
+}
+
+impl GetMetadataSlowtailFaultRequest {
+    fn delay_for_disk(&self, disk_index: usize) -> Option<Duration> {
+        self.disks.contains(&disk_index).then_some(self.delay)
+    }
+}
+
+fn parse_get_metadata_slowtail_fault_disks(raw: &str) -> Option<Vec<usize>> {
+    let mut disks = Vec::new();
+    for item in raw.split(',').map(str::trim).filter(|item| !item.is_empty()) {
+        let Ok(index) = item.parse::<usize>() else {
+            return None;
+        };
+        if !disks.contains(&index) {
+            disks.push(index);
+        }
+    }
+    (!disks.is_empty()).then_some(disks)
+}
+
+fn load_get_metadata_slowtail_fault_config() -> Option<GetMetadataSlowtailFaultConfig> {
+    let delay_ms = rustfs_utils::get_env_u64(ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DELAY_MS, 0);
+    if delay_ms == 0 {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let disks = parse_get_metadata_slowtail_fault_disks(&std::env::var(ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_DISKS).ok()?)?;
+    let bucket = std::env::var(ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_BUCKET)
+        .ok()
+        .filter(|value| !value.is_empty());
+    let object_prefix = std::env::var(ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_SLOWTAIL_FAULT_OBJECT_PREFIX)
+        .ok()
+        .filter(|value| !value.is_empty());
+    Some(GetMetadataSlowtailFaultConfig {
+        delay: Duration::from_millis(delay_ms),
+        disks: Arc::from(disks.into_boxed_slice()),
+        bucket,
+        object_prefix,
+    })
+}
+
+fn get_metadata_slowtail_fault_request(bucket: &str, object: &str, read_data: bool) -> Option<GetMetadataSlowtailFaultRequest> {
+    if !read_data {
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    let config = load_get_metadata_slowtail_fault_config();
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    let config = config.as_ref()?;
+    #[cfg(not(test))]
+    let config = ({
+        static CACHED: OnceLock<Option<GetMetadataSlowtailFaultConfig>> = OnceLock::new();
+        CACHED.get_or_init(load_get_metadata_slowtail_fault_config).as_ref()
+    })?;
+
+    if let Some(expected_bucket) = &config.bucket
+        && expected_bucket != bucket
+    {
+        return None;
+    }
+    if let Some(expected_prefix) = &config.object_prefix
+        && !object.starts_with(expected_prefix)
+    {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some(GetMetadataSlowtailFaultRequest {
+        delay: config.delay,
+        disks: config.disks.clone(),
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+fn get_metadata_slowtail_fault_delay(bucket: &str, object: &str, disk_index: usize, read_data: bool) -> Option<Duration> {
+    get_metadata_slowtail_fault_request(bucket, object, read_data)?.delay_for_disk(disk_index)
+}
+
 /// Check if multipart reads prefetch the next part's bitrot reader setup
 /// while the current part decodes (backlog#870).
 ///
@@ -1711,6 +1816,10 @@ fn is_multipart_reader_setup_prefetch_enabled() -> bool {
    }
 }

+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "percentage-rollout facet of the metadata early-stop switch; its predicate has no caller while the sibling enable flag is live (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 fn get_metadata_early_stop_rollout_pct() -> u32 {
    static CACHED: OnceLock<u32> = OnceLock::new();
    *CACHED.get_or_init(|| {
@@ -1750,6 +1859,10 @@ fn should_use_codec_streaming(config: GetCodecStreamingConfig, bucket: &str, obj
 }

 /// Should this specific request use metadata early-stop?
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "percentage-rollout facet of the metadata early-stop switch; its predicate has no caller while the sibling enable flag is live (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn should_use_metadata_early_stop(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> bool {
    let base = is_get_metadata_early_stop_enabled();
    let pct = get_metadata_early_stop_rollout_pct();
@@ -2183,6 +2296,7 @@ fn classify_get_codec_streaming_object_class(
    GetCodecStreamingObjectClass::PlainSinglePart
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn is_get_small_object_direct_memory_eligible_with_threshold(
    range: &Option<HTTPRangeSpec>,
    object_info: &ObjectInfo,
@@ -2788,6 +2902,7 @@ pub struct SetDisks {
    /// Stable namespace shared by every object lock created for this set.
    set_lock_namespace: Arc<str>,
    pub format: FormatV3,
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    disk_health_cache: Arc<RwLock<Vec<Option<DiskHealthEntry>>>>,
    get_object_metadata_cache: moka::future::Cache<GetObjectMetadataCacheKey, Arc<GetObjectMetadataCacheEntry>>,
    get_object_metadata_cache_hash_builder: std::collections::hash_map::RandomState,
@@ -3063,11 +3178,13 @@ struct GetObjectMetadataCacheEntry {

 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 struct DiskHealthEntry {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    last_check: Instant,
    online: bool,
 }

 impl DiskHealthEntry {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    fn cached_value(&self) -> Option<bool> {
        if self.last_check.elapsed() <= DISK_HEALTH_CACHE_TTL {
            Some(self.online)
@@ -3661,6 +3778,7 @@ fn multipart_put_large_batch_min_size_bytes() -> usize {
    })
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn classify_small_write_path(is_inline_buffer: bool, object_size: i64, block_size: usize) -> SmallWritePath {
    if should_use_inline_small_fast_path(is_inline_buffer, object_size, block_size) {
        SmallWritePath::Inline
@@ -3866,8 +3984,17 @@ fn collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index<'a>(
    parts_metadata: &'a [FileInfo],
    fi: &FileInfo,
    data_shards: usize,
-    mut disk_is_online: impl FnMut(usize) -> bool,
+    disk_is_online: impl FnMut(usize) -> bool,
 ) -> Option<Vec<&'a FileInfo>> {
+    collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index_or_reason(parts_metadata, fi, data_shards, disk_is_online).ok()
+}
+
+fn collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index_or_reason<'a>(
+    parts_metadata: &'a [FileInfo],
+    fi: &FileInfo,
+    data_shards: usize,
+    mut disk_is_online: impl FnMut(usize) -> bool,
+) -> std::result::Result<Vec<&'a FileInfo>, &'static str> {
    let distribution = &fi.erasure.distribution;
    let mut data_files = vec![None; data_shards];

@@ -3875,27 +4002,35 @@ fn collect_inline_data_shard_fileinfos_by_index<'a>(
        if !disk_is_online(disk_index) {
            continue;
        }
-        let block_index = *distribution.get(disk_index)?;
+        let Some(&block_index) = distribution.get(disk_index) else {
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY);
+        };
        if block_index == 0 || block_index > data_shards {
            continue;
        }
+        if file_info.name.is_empty() {
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD);
+        }
        if file_info.erasure.index != block_index {
-            continue;
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH);
        }
        if !file_info.has_valid_erasure_geometry() {
-            continue;
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_GEOMETRY);
        }
        if !core::io_primitives::metadata_early_stop_candidate_matches(file_info, fi) {
-            continue;
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH);
        }
        if file_info.data.as_ref().is_none_or(|data| data.is_empty()) {
-            continue;
+            return Err(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_PAYLOAD);
        }

        data_files[block_index - 1] = Some(file_info);
    }

-    data_files.into_iter().collect()
+    data_files
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect::<Option<Vec<_>>>()
+        .ok_or(GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_DATA_READ_INLINE_MISSING_SHARD)
 }

 impl SetDisks {
@@ -4222,6 +4357,7 @@ fn check_object_lock_retention_update(bucket: &str, object: &str, obj_info: &Obj
 ///
 /// Fail closed: when bucket metadata cannot be resolved the check stays on, so
 /// object-lock protection is never skipped because of a metadata lookup miss.
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub(crate) fn object_lock_delete_check_required(bucket_meta: Option<&crate::bucket::metadata::BucketMetadata>) -> bool {
    bucket_meta.is_none_or(|meta| meta.object_locking())
 }
@@ -4497,15 +4633,6 @@ impl Hash for ObjProps {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Default, Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct HealEntryResult {
-    pub bytes: usize,
-    pub success: bool,
-    pub skipped: bool,
-    pub entry_done: bool,
-    pub name: String,
-}
-
 fn is_object_dangling(
    meta_arr: &[FileInfo],
    errs: &[Option<DiskError>],
@@ -5282,6 +5409,7 @@ pub fn is_valid_storage_class(storage_class: &str) -> bool {
 }

 /// Returns true if the storage class is a cold storage tier that requires special handling
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn is_cold_storage_class(storage_class: &str) -> bool {
    matches!(
        storage_class,
@@ -5290,6 +5418,7 @@ pub fn is_cold_storage_class(storage_class: &str) -> bool {
 }

 /// Returns true if the storage class is an infrequent access tier
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 pub fn is_infrequent_access_class(storage_class: &str) -> bool {
    matches!(
        storage_class,
@@ -453,7 +453,9 @@ impl SetDisks {
            ..Default::default()
        };

-        let write_lock_guard = if !opts.no_lock {
+        // Bound, not `_`: this guard must live to the end of the scope. A bare
+        // `_` would drop it here and release the namespace write lock.
+        let _write_lock_guard = if !opts.no_lock {
            let ns_lock = self.new_ns_lock(bucket, object).await?;
            Some(
                ns_lock
@@ -996,7 +998,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
                                                readers.push(None);
                                                continue;
                                            }
-                                            Err(e) => {
+                                            Err(_e) => {
                                                readers.push(None);
                                                continue;
                                            }
@@ -1545,6 +1547,9 @@ impl SetDisks {

        for candidate in candidates.iter_mut().filter(|candidate| candidate.local_payload) {
            for (disk_index, disk) in disks.iter().enumerate() {
+                // Only the #[cfg(test)] fault-injection branch below reads this.
+                #[cfg(not(test))]
+                let _ = disk_index;
                let Some(disk) = disk else {
                    return Ok(DanglingDeleteSafety::UnsafeToDelete);
                };
@@ -1716,6 +1721,10 @@ impl SetDisks {
        Ok((result, None))
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "lock-taking wrapper over the live heal_object_dir_locked; only comments reference it (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    #[tracing::instrument(level = "trace", skip(self), fields(bucket = %bucket, object = %object))]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn heal_object_dir(
        &self,
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::namespace::NamespaceLocking for SetDisks {
 }

 impl SetDisks {
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "lock diagnostics formatter with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) fn format_lock_error(&self, bucket: &str, object: &str, mode: &str, err: &LockResult) -> String {
        match err {
            LockResult::Timeout => {
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
        }
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "lock diagnostics formatter with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) fn format_lock_error_from_error(
        &self,
        bucket: &str,
@@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
        disks
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn get_online_disks(&self) -> Vec<Option<DiskStore>> {
        let snapshot = self.drive_membership_snapshot().await;
        let mut disks = snapshot.strict_online_candidates().into_iter().map(Some).collect::<Vec<_>>();
@@ -153,6 +156,10 @@ impl SetDisks {
        disks
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "local-only sibling of the test-covered get_online_disks; no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn get_online_local_disks(&self) -> Vec<Option<DiskStore>> {
        let snapshot = self.drive_membership_snapshot().await;
        let mut disks = snapshot
@@ -432,6 +439,10 @@ impl SetDisks {
        Ok((disk, fm))
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "MinIO-parity healing-disk accessor with no caller in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn get_online_disk_with_healing(
        &self,
        incl_healing: bool,
@@ -440,6 +451,10 @@ impl SetDisks {
        Ok((new_disks, healing > 0))
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "reached only from get_online_disk_with_healing, itself uncalled in this port (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    pub(in crate::set_disk) async fn get_online_disk_with_healing_and_info(
        &self,
        incl_healing: bool,
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ fn reduce_quorum_part_numbers(object_parts: Vec<Vec<String>>, read_quorum: usize
 /// never returned, but flips `is_truncated` to `true` and yields a
 /// `next_upload_id_marker` pointing at the last returned upload so the caller can
 /// resume paging.
+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn paginate_upload_page(remaining: &[MultipartInfo], max_uploads: usize) -> (Vec<MultipartInfo>, bool, Option<String>) {
    let is_truncated = remaining.len() > max_uploads;
    let page: Vec<MultipartInfo> = remaining.iter().take(max_uploads).cloned().collect();
@@ -557,6 +558,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
    }

    #[tracing::instrument(level = "debug", skip(self))]
+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    pub(super) async fn check_upload_id_exists(
        &self,
        bucket: &str,
@@ -1398,7 +1400,7 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::multipart::MultipartOperations for SetDisks {

        let mut count = max_parts;

-        for (i, part) in object_parts.iter().enumerate() {
+        for part in object_parts.iter() {
            if let Some(err) = &part.error {
                warn!("list_object_parts part error: {:?}", &err);
            }
@@ -2041,8 +2043,8 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::multipart::MultipartOperations for SetDisks {
                    && let Err(err) = checksum.add_part(&cs, ext_part.actual_size)
                {
                    error!(
-                        "complete_multipart_upload checksum add_part failed part_id={}, bucket={}, object={}",
-                        p.part_num, bucket, object
+                        "complete_multipart_upload checksum add_part failed part_id={}, bucket={}, object={}, err={}",
+                        p.part_num, bucket, object, err
                    );
                    return Err(Error::InvalidPart(p.part_num, ext_part.etag.clone(), p.etag.clone().unwrap_or_default()));
                }
@@ -2087,8 +2089,8 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::multipart::MultipartOperations for SetDisks {
                }
            } else if let Err(err) = wtcs.matches(&checksum_combined, uploaded_parts.len() as i32) {
                error!(
-                    "complete_multipart_upload checksum matches failed want={}, got={}",
-                    wtcs.encoded, checksum.encoded
+                    "complete_multipart_upload checksum matches failed want={}, got={}, err={}",
+                    wtcs.encoded, checksum.encoded, err
                );
                return Err(Error::other(format!(
                    "complete_multipart_upload checksum matches failed want={}, got={}",
@@ -3507,6 +3507,10 @@ struct TransitionUploadedSaveProbeState {
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct TransitionUploadedSaveProbe {
    state: Arc<TransitionUploadedSaveProbeState>,
 }
@@ -3517,6 +3521,10 @@ static TRANSITION_UPLOADED_SAVE_PROBE: std::sync::OnceLock<std::sync::Mutex<Opti

 #[cfg(test)]
 impl TransitionUploadedSaveProbe {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn install(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> Self {
        let state = Arc::new(TransitionUploadedSaveProbeState {
            bucket: bucket.to_string(),
@@ -3533,6 +3541,10 @@ impl TransitionUploadedSaveProbe {
        Self { state }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn attempts(&self) -> usize {
        self.state.attempts.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Acquire)
    }
@@ -3738,6 +3750,10 @@ struct TransitionCommitBarrierState {
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct TransitionCommitBarrier {
    state: Arc<TransitionCommitBarrierState>,
 }
@@ -3748,14 +3764,26 @@ static TRANSITION_COMMIT_BARRIER: std::sync::OnceLock<std::sync::Mutex<Option<Ar

 #[cfg(test)]
 impl TransitionCommitBarrier {
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn install_before_lock_lost_check(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> Self {
        Self::install_at(bucket, object, TransitionCommitPause::BeforeLockLost)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn install(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> Self {
        Self::install_at(bucket, object, TransitionCommitPause::BeforeLeaseValidation)
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn install_after_lease_check(bucket: &str, object: &str) -> Self {
        Self::install_at(bucket, object, TransitionCommitPause::AfterLeaseValidation)
    }
@@ -3778,12 +3806,20 @@ impl TransitionCommitBarrier {
        Self { state }
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    async fn wait_until_paused(&self) {
        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(30), self.state.arrived.notified())
            .await
            .expect("transition should reach the deterministic commit barrier");
    }

+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "installed by set_disk tests behind `--features test-util` (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    fn release(&self) {
        self.state.release.notify_one();
    }
@@ -5620,7 +5656,9 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::object::ObjectOperations for SetDisks {
        // TODO: Lifecycle

        let mut version_found = true;
-        let (mut goi, write_quorum, gerr) = self.get_object_info_and_quorum(bucket, object, &opts).await;
+        // delete_object_version below derives its own majority quorum from the
+        // disk array, so the object-derived quorum here is unused.
+        let (mut goi, _write_quorum, gerr) = self.get_object_info_and_quorum(bucket, object, &opts).await;
        if let Some(err) = &gerr
            && goi.name.is_empty()
        {
@@ -6374,7 +6412,7 @@ impl crate::storage_api_contracts::object::ObjectOperations for SetDisks {
        self.record_capacity_scope_if_needed(opts.capacity_scope_token, &disks);

        for disk in disks.iter() {
-            if let Some(disk) = disk {
+            if disk.is_some() {
                continue;
            }
            let _ = self
@@ -7505,7 +7543,7 @@ mod get_object_downstream_close_accounting_tests {
    use super::hermetic_set_disks_support::hermetic_set_disks;
    use super::*;
    use crate::diagnostics::get::{
-        GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_UNSAFE_REQUEST, GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META, GET_STAGE_DECODE, GET_STAGE_EMIT,
+        GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND, GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META, GET_STAGE_DECODE, GET_STAGE_EMIT,
        GetObjectFailureReason,
    };
    use crate::disk::RUSTFS_META_BUCKET;
@@ -7637,8 +7675,8 @@ mod get_object_downstream_close_accounting_tests {
            legacy_completed,
            internal_cancelled,
            legacy_cancelled,
-            internal_unsafe_miss,
-            legacy_unsafe_miss,
+            internal_not_found_miss,
+            legacy_not_found_miss,
            internal_saved,
            legacy_saved,
        ) = metrics::with_local_recorder(&recorder, || {
@@ -7714,7 +7752,7 @@ mod get_object_downstream_close_accounting_tests {
                        &[
                            ("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_INTERNAL_META),
                            ("decision", "miss"),
-                            ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_UNSAFE_REQUEST),
+                            ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND),
                        ],
                    ),
                    recorder.counter_value(
@@ -7722,7 +7760,7 @@ mod get_object_downstream_close_accounting_tests {
                        &[
                            ("path", GET_OBJECT_PATH_LEGACY_DUPLEX),
                            ("decision", "miss"),
-                            ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_UNSAFE_REQUEST),
+                            ("reason", GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_REASON_NOT_FOUND),
                        ],
                    ),
                    recorder.histogram_values(
@@ -7773,21 +7811,21 @@ mod get_object_downstream_close_accounting_tests {
            "internal metadata lifecycle cancelled count must not leak into legacy_duplex"
        );
        assert_eq!(
-            internal_unsafe_miss, 1,
-            "internal metadata unsafe early-stop miss must retain its path label"
+            internal_not_found_miss, 1,
+            "internal metadata not-found early-stop miss must retain its path label"
        );
        assert_eq!(
-            legacy_unsafe_miss, 0,
-            "internal metadata unsafe early-stop miss must not leak into legacy_duplex"
+            legacy_not_found_miss, 0,
+            "internal metadata not-found early-stop miss must not leak into legacy_duplex"
        );
        assert_eq!(
            internal_saved,
            vec![0.0],
-            "internal metadata unsafe miss must record zero saved responses on internal_meta"
+            "internal metadata not-found miss must record zero saved responses on internal_meta"
        );
        assert!(
            legacy_saved.is_empty(),
-            "internal metadata unsafe miss saved responses must not leak into legacy_duplex"
+            "internal metadata not-found miss saved responses must not leak into legacy_duplex"
        );
    }
 }
@@ -10170,6 +10208,288 @@ mod transition_upload_integrity_tests {
        assert!(backend.contains(remote_object).await, "committed remote object should remain available");
    }

+    /// Compresses `plaintext` with the codec the PUT path uses, so the stored
+    /// bytes round-trip through the read path's decompressor.
+    async fn compress_for_storage(plaintext: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
+        let mut reader = crate::io_support::rio::compression_reader(
+            Cursor::new(plaintext.to_vec()),
+            rustfs_utils::CompressionAlgorithm::default(),
+            false,
+        );
+        let mut compressed = Vec::new();
+        reader.read_to_end(&mut compressed).await.expect("plaintext should compress");
+        assert!(compressed.len() < plaintext.len(), "test payload must actually compress");
+        compressed
+    }
+
+    /// Writes a genuinely compressed object: stored data is `compressed`, and the
+    /// metadata marks it compressed with the plaintext length as its actual size,
+    /// exactly as the app-layer compress path records it.
+    async fn write_compressed_source(
+        set_disks: &Arc<SetDisks>,
+        disk_stores: &[DiskStore],
+        bucket: &str,
+        object: &str,
+        plaintext: &[u8],
+        compressed: &[u8],
+    ) -> ObjectInfo {
+        for disk in disk_stores {
+            disk.make_volume(bucket).await.expect("bucket volume should be created");
+        }
+        let mut user_defined = HashMap::new();
+        rustfs_utils::http::insert_str(
+            &mut user_defined,
+            rustfs_utils::http::SUFFIX_COMPRESSION,
+            crate::io_support::rio::compression_metadata_value(rustfs_utils::CompressionAlgorithm::default()),
+        );
+        rustfs_utils::http::insert_str(&mut user_defined, rustfs_utils::http::SUFFIX_ACTUAL_SIZE, plaintext.len().to_string());
+        let stream = crate::io_support::rio::HashReader::from_stream(
+            Cursor::new(compressed.to_vec()),
+            compressed.len() as i64,
+            plaintext.len() as i64,
+            None,
+            None,
+            false,
+        )
+        .expect("hash reader over compressed bytes");
+        let mut reader = PutObjReader::new(stream);
+        set_disks
+            .put_object(
+                bucket,
+                object,
+                &mut reader,
+                &ObjectOptions {
+                    no_lock: true,
+                    user_defined,
+                    ..Default::default()
+                },
+            )
+            .await
+            .expect("compressed object should be written")
+    }
+
+    async fn read_transitioned(
+        set_disks: &Arc<SetDisks>,
+        bucket: &str,
+        object: &str,
+        range: Option<HTTPRangeSpec>,
+        opts: &ObjectOptions,
+    ) -> (Vec<u8>, i64) {
+        let mut reader = set_disks
+            .get_object_reader(bucket, object, range, HeaderMap::new(), opts)
+            .await
+            .expect("transitioned object reader should open");
+        let published_size = reader.object_info.size;
+        let mut body = Vec::new();
+        reader
+            .stream
+            .read_to_end(&mut body)
+            .await
+            .expect("transitioned body should drain");
+        (body, published_size)
+    }
+
+    /// Transition uploads the object's STORED bytes, so a tiered read has to
+    /// apply the same transform an erasure read would. #6107 routed this path
+    /// through `ReadPlan` to stop serving an encrypted object's ciphertext;
+    /// compression rides the same plan, and nothing pinned it (backlog#1851).
+    /// Without the transform this GET returns the compressed bytes under the
+    /// compressed size — silent corruption for every client of a compressed
+    /// object that ILM has moved to a warm tier.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    #[serial_test::serial]
+    async fn transitioned_compressed_object_get_returns_plaintext() {
+        let (_temp_dirs, disk_stores, set_disks) = hermetic_set_disks(4).await;
+        let bucket = "transitioned-compressed-get-bucket";
+        let object = "object.txt";
+        let plaintext = b"transitioned compressed objects must decompress on read ".repeat(20_000);
+        let compressed = compress_for_storage(&plaintext).await;
+        let original = write_compressed_source(&set_disks, &disk_stores, bucket, object, &plaintext, &compressed).await;
+
+        let opts = ObjectOptions {
+            no_lock: true,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let (local_body, local_size) = read_transitioned(&set_disks, bucket, object, None, &opts).await;
+        assert_eq!(local_body, plaintext, "control: the pre-transition read must decompress");
+        assert_eq!(
+            local_size,
+            plaintext.len() as i64,
+            "control: the pre-transition read publishes the plaintext size"
+        );
+
+        let tier_name = format!("COLDTIER{}", &Uuid::new_v4().simple().to_string()[..8]).to_uppercase();
+        let backend = register_mock_tier(&runtime_sources::global_tier_config_mgr(), &tier_name).await;
+        set_disks
+            .transition_object(bucket, object, &transition_options(&original, tier_name))
+            .await
+            .expect("transition should commit");
+
+        let put_versions = backend.put_versions().await;
+        assert_eq!(put_versions.len(), 1, "transition should upload one remote candidate");
+        let remote_bytes = backend
+            .bytes(&put_versions[0].0)
+            .await
+            .expect("remote candidate should be stored");
+        assert_eq!(
+            remote_bytes, compressed,
+            "transition uploads the stored representation; the read side is what has to decode it"
+        );
+
+        let (body, published_size) = read_transitioned(&set_disks, bucket, object, None, &opts).await;
+        assert_eq!(body, plaintext, "a tiered read must return the object's content, not its stored bytes");
+        assert_eq!(
+            published_size,
+            plaintext.len() as i64,
+            "a tiered read must publish the plaintext size, not the compressed one"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// A ranged tiered read is expressed in plaintext coordinates, so the plan
+    /// has to translate it into the remote copy's compressed extent and skip
+    /// into the decompressed stream — the same translation the erasure path does.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    #[serial_test::serial]
+    async fn transitioned_compressed_object_range_get_returns_plaintext_slice() {
+        let (_temp_dirs, disk_stores, set_disks) = hermetic_set_disks(4).await;
+        let bucket = "transitioned-compressed-range-bucket";
+        let object = "object.txt";
+        let plaintext = b"ranged reads of transitioned compressed objects must land in plaintext ".repeat(20_000);
+        let compressed = compress_for_storage(&plaintext).await;
+        let original = write_compressed_source(&set_disks, &disk_stores, bucket, object, &plaintext, &compressed).await;
+
+        let tier_name = format!("COLDTIER{}", &Uuid::new_v4().simple().to_string()[..8]).to_uppercase();
+        register_mock_tier(&runtime_sources::global_tier_config_mgr(), &tier_name).await;
+        set_disks
+            .transition_object(bucket, object, &transition_options(&original, tier_name))
+            .await
+            .expect("transition should commit");
+
+        let opts = ObjectOptions {
+            no_lock: true,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        // Deliberately past the compressed size, so a range still measured in
+        // stored coordinates could not produce this slice.
+        let start = compressed.len() as i64 + 4096;
+        let end = start + 511;
+        let range = HTTPRangeSpec {
+            is_suffix_length: false,
+            start,
+            end,
+        };
+        let (body, published_size) = read_transitioned(&set_disks, bucket, object, Some(range), &opts).await;
+
+        let expected = &plaintext[start as usize..=end as usize];
+        assert_eq!(body, expected, "a ranged tiered read must return that plaintext slice");
+        assert_eq!(published_size, expected.len() as i64, "a ranged tiered read publishes the slice length");
+    }
+
+    /// The restore copy-back re-writes the object under its original metadata,
+    /// which still says "compressed". It therefore has to keep receiving the
+    /// STORED bytes: `restore_request_active` holds it on the plan's `Plain`
+    /// branch, and decompressing there would write plaintext under compressed
+    /// metadata.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    #[serial_test::serial]
+    async fn restore_read_of_transitioned_compressed_object_keeps_stored_bytes() {
+        let (_temp_dirs, disk_stores, set_disks) = hermetic_set_disks(4).await;
+        let bucket = "transitioned-compressed-restore-bucket";
+        let object = "object.txt";
+        let plaintext = b"restore copy-back must keep the stored representation intact ".repeat(20_000);
+        let compressed = compress_for_storage(&plaintext).await;
+        let original = write_compressed_source(&set_disks, &disk_stores, bucket, object, &plaintext, &compressed).await;
+
+        let tier_name = format!("COLDTIER{}", &Uuid::new_v4().simple().to_string()[..8]).to_uppercase();
+        register_mock_tier(&runtime_sources::global_tier_config_mgr(), &tier_name).await;
+        set_disks
+            .transition_object(bucket, object, &transition_options(&original, tier_name))
+            .await
+            .expect("transition should commit");
+
+        let oi = set_disks
+            .get_object_info(
+                bucket,
+                object,
+                &ObjectOptions {
+                    no_lock: true,
+                    ..Default::default()
+                },
+            )
+            .await
+            .expect("transitioned metadata should resolve");
+        let restore_opts = ObjectOptions {
+            no_lock: true,
+            part_number: Some(1),
+            transition: TransitionOptions {
+                restore_request: s3s::dto::RestoreRequest {
+                    days: Some(1),
+                    ..Default::default()
+                },
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let mut reader = get_transitioned_object_reader_with_tier_manager(
+            bucket,
+            object,
+            &None,
+            &HeaderMap::new(),
+            &oi,
+            &restore_opts,
+            &set_disks.ctx.tier_config_mgr(),
+            set_disks.ctx.object_encryption_resolver(),
+        )
+        .await
+        .expect("restore read of the tiered copy should open");
+        let published_size = reader.object_info.size;
+        let mut body = Vec::new();
+        reader.stream.read_to_end(&mut body).await.expect("restore body should drain");
+
+        assert_eq!(body, compressed, "a restore read must copy the stored bytes back verbatim");
+        assert_eq!(
+            published_size,
+            compressed.len() as i64,
+            "a restore read must keep publishing the stored size"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// Plain objects must keep streaming the remote bytes through untouched:
+    /// their plan is `Plain`, so the tiered read stays byte-identical.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    #[serial_test::serial]
+    async fn transitioned_plain_object_get_is_unchanged() {
+        let (_temp_dirs, disk_stores, set_disks) = hermetic_set_disks(4).await;
+        let bucket = "transitioned-plain-get-bucket";
+        let object = "object.bin";
+        let payload = b"plain transitioned objects must keep reading back byte-identical ".repeat(1024);
+        let original = write_source(&set_disks, &disk_stores, bucket, object, &payload).await;
+
+        let tier_name = format!("COLDTIER{}", &Uuid::new_v4().simple().to_string()[..8]).to_uppercase();
+        register_mock_tier(&runtime_sources::global_tier_config_mgr(), &tier_name).await;
+        set_disks
+            .transition_object(bucket, object, &transition_options(&original, tier_name))
+            .await
+            .expect("transition should commit");
+
+        let opts = ObjectOptions {
+            no_lock: true,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let (body, published_size) = read_transitioned(&set_disks, bucket, object, None, &opts).await;
+        assert_eq!(body, payload);
+        assert_eq!(published_size, payload.len() as i64);
+
+        let range = HTTPRangeSpec {
+            is_suffix_length: false,
+            start: 100,
+            end: 611,
+        };
+        let (ranged_body, ranged_size) = read_transitioned(&set_disks, bucket, object, Some(range), &opts).await;
+        assert_eq!(ranged_body, &payload[100..=611]);
+        assert_eq!(ranged_size, payload.len() as i64, "a plain ranged read keeps publishing the object size");
+    }
+
    async fn corrupt_beyond_read_quorum(
        temp_dirs: &[tempfile::TempDir],
        bucket: &str,
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ impl SetDisks {
            .then_some(GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_DIST_ERASURE)
    }

+    #[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
    async fn cached_get_object_fileinfo(&self, bucket: &str, object: &str) -> Option<Arc<GetObjectMetadataCacheEntry>> {
        match self.lookup_cached_get_object_fileinfo(bucket, object).await {
            MetadataCacheLookup::Hit(entry) => Some(entry),
@@ -1826,6 +1827,7 @@ fn get_object_metadata_cache_request_bypass_reason(bucket: &str, opts: &ObjectOp
        .then_some(GET_METADATA_CACHE_REASON_META_BUCKET)
 }

+#[allow(dead_code, reason = "asserted by this file's tests (backlog#1823)")]
 fn is_get_object_metadata_cache_request_eligible(bucket: &str, opts: &ObjectOptions, read_data: bool) -> bool {
    get_object_metadata_cache_request_bypass_reason(bucket, opts, read_data).is_none()
 }
@@ -3886,13 +3888,15 @@ mod tests {
                assert!(metadata_early_stop_permitted(true, true, false, "", false, false));
                // observe=false (non-observed fanout) also disables early-stop.
                assert!(!metadata_early_stop_permitted(true, false, false, "", false, false));
-                assert!(!metadata_early_stop_permitted(true, true, true, "", false, false));
+                // Whole/latest data-read metadata is now allowed by default;
+                // the inline verifier still decides whether it can stop early.
+                assert!(metadata_early_stop_permitted(true, true, true, "", false, false));
            },
        );
    }

    #[test]
-    fn metadata_early_stop_keeps_data_reads_opt_in_by_default() {
+    fn metadata_early_stop_allows_safe_data_reads_by_default() {
        temp_env::with_vars(
            [
                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("true")),
@@ -3900,7 +3904,7 @@ mod tests {
                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, None),
            ],
            || {
-                assert!(!should_allow_metadata_early_stop(true, "", false, false));
+                assert!(should_allow_metadata_early_stop(true, "", false, false));
                assert!(!should_allow_metadata_early_stop(true, "version-id", false, false));
                assert!(should_allow_metadata_early_stop(false, "", false, false));
                assert!(!should_allow_metadata_early_stop(false, "version-id", false, false));
@@ -3932,6 +3936,34 @@ mod tests {
        );
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn metadata_early_stop_bounded_fanout_defaults_to_enabled() {
+        temp_env::with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("true")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, None),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT, None),
+            ],
+            || {
+                assert!(is_get_metadata_data_read_early_stop_enabled());
+                assert!(is_get_metadata_early_stop_bounded_fanout_enabled());
+            },
+        );
+        temp_env::with_vars([(ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT, Some("false"))], || {
+            assert!(!is_get_metadata_early_stop_bounded_fanout_enabled());
+        });
+        temp_env::with_vars(
+            [
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_DATA_READ_EARLY_STOP_ENABLE, Some("false")),
+                (ENV_RUSTFS_GET_METADATA_EARLY_STOP_BOUNDED_FANOUT, Some("true")),
+            ],
+            || {
+                assert!(!is_get_metadata_data_read_early_stop_enabled());
+                assert!(is_get_metadata_early_stop_bounded_fanout_enabled());
+            },
+        );
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn metadata_early_stop_rejects_healing_and_free_version_requests() {
        temp_env::with_vars(
@@ -135,10 +135,7 @@ impl FileMeta {
        let i = buf.len() as u64;

        // check version, buf = buf[8..]
-        let (buf, _, _) = Self::check_xl2_v1(buf).map_err(|e| {
-            error!("failed to check XL2 v1 format: {}", e);
-            e
-        })?;
+        let (buf, _, _) = Self::check_xl2_v1(buf)?;

        if buf.len() < 5 {
            error!(
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ impl Error {
    /// Whether a heal operation can be retried without changing its inputs.
    pub(crate) fn is_recoverable_heal(&self) -> bool {
        match self {
-            Error::TaskCancelled => false,
-            Error::TaskTimeout | Error::TransientSkip { .. } => true,
+            Error::TaskCancelled | Error::TaskTimeout => false,
+            Error::TransientSkip { .. } => true,
            Error::Storage(err) => {
                err.is_quorum_error()
                    || matches!(
@@ -165,4 +165,9 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(Error::Storage(EcstoreError::DiskNotFound).is_recoverable_heal());
        assert!(Error::Storage(EcstoreError::VolumeNotFound).is_recoverable_heal());
    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn task_timeout_is_terminal() {
+        assert!(!Error::TaskTimeout.is_recoverable_heal());
+    }
 }
@@ -673,6 +673,12 @@ fn retry_request_for_result(task: &HealTask, result: &Result<()>) -> Option<(Hea
    Some((request, delay, error))
 }

+async fn retry_request_for_result_with_budget(task: &HealTask, result: &Result<()>) -> Option<(HealRequest, Duration, String)> {
+    let (_, delay, error) = retry_request_for_result(task, result)?;
+    let request = task.retry_request_with_remaining_timeout().await.ok()?;
+    Some((request, delay, error))
+}
+
 fn recoverable_heal_retry_delay(retry_attempt: u32) -> Duration {
    let retry_attempt = retry_attempt.clamp(1, 5);
    let delay = Duration::from_secs(2_u64.saturating_pow(retry_attempt));
@@ -690,7 +696,7 @@ pub struct HealConfig {
    pub max_concurrent_heals: usize,
    /// Maximum concurrent heal tasks allowed for a single erasure set
    pub max_concurrent_per_set: usize,
-    /// Task timeout
+    /// Aggregate task execution timeout across recoverable retries
    pub task_timeout: Duration,
    /// Queue size
    pub queue_size: usize,
@@ -3106,7 +3112,7 @@ impl HealManager {
                        "Heal scheduler task started"
                    );
                    let result = task.execute().await;
-                    let retry_request = retry_request_for_result(task.as_ref(), &result);
+                    let retry_request = retry_request_for_result_with_budget(task.as_ref(), &result).await;
                    match &result {
                        Ok(_) => {
                            debug!(
@@ -4539,6 +4545,25 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(retry_error.contains("Lock acquisition timeout"));
    }

+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn retry_request_for_result_preserves_remaining_timeout_budget() {
+        let storage: Arc<dyn HealStorageAPI> = Arc::new(MockStorage);
+        let mut request = HealRequest::object("retry-transition".to_string(), "object".to_string(), None);
+        request.options.timeout = Some(Duration::from_secs(60));
+        let task = HealTask::from_request(request, storage);
+        let result = task.execute().await;
+
+        let (retry_request, _, _) = retry_request_for_result_with_budget(&task, &result)
+            .await
+            .expect("read quorum failure should retain the unused timeout budget");
+        let remaining = retry_request
+            .options
+            .timeout
+            .expect("configured timeout should remain present");
+        assert!(remaining < Duration::from_secs(60));
+        assert!(remaining > Duration::from_secs(59));
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn test_retry_request_for_incomplete_heal_rename() {
        let storage: Arc<dyn HealStorageAPI> = Arc::new(MockStorage);
@@ -6054,7 +6079,7 @@ mod tests {
        process_manager_queue_once(&manager).await;
        let defaulted_status = tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(1), async {
            loop {
-                if let Ok(status @ HealTaskStatus::Retrying { .. }) = manager.get_task_status(&defaulted_id).await {
+                if let Ok(status @ HealTaskStatus::Timeout) = manager.get_task_status(&defaulted_id).await {
                    break status;
                }
                tokio::task::yield_now().await;
@@ -6062,23 +6087,8 @@ mod tests {
        })
        .await
        .expect("configured timeout should finish the task");
-        assert!(matches!(defaulted_status, HealTaskStatus::Retrying { .. }));
-        assert_eq!(
-            manager
-                .retrying_heals
-                .lock()
-                .await
-                .get(&defaulted_id)
-                .expect("timed out task should retain its retry request")
-                .request
-                .options
-                .timeout,
-            Some(Duration::ZERO)
-        );
-        manager
-            .cancel_task(&defaulted_id)
-            .await
-            .expect("retrying timeout task should be cancelled");
+        assert_eq!(defaulted_status, HealTaskStatus::Timeout);
+        assert!(manager.retrying_heals.lock().await.get(&defaulted_id).is_none());

        let mut explicit = bucket_request("explicit-timeout", HealPriority::Normal, HealRequestSource::Admin);
        explicit.options.timeout = Some(Duration::from_secs(60));
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ pub struct HealOptions {
    /// Whether to skip namespace locking
    #[serde(default)]
    pub no_lock: bool,
-    /// Timeout
+    /// Aggregate execution timeout across recoverable manager retries
    pub timeout: Option<Duration>,
    /// pool index
    pub pool_index: Option<usize>,
@@ -442,6 +442,14 @@ impl HealTask {
        }
    }

+    pub(crate) async fn retry_request_with_remaining_timeout(&self) -> Result<HealRequest> {
+        let mut request = self.retry_request();
+        if self.options.timeout.is_some() {
+            request.options.timeout = self.remaining_timeout().await?;
+        }
+        Ok(request)
+    }
+
    pub(crate) fn from_replacement_recovery_request(
        request: HealRequest,
        storage: Arc<dyn HealStorageAPI>,
@@ -2657,6 +2665,36 @@ mod tests {

    use super::super::storage_api::status::BucketInfo;

+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn retry_request_carries_remaining_timeout_budget() {
+        let storage: Arc<dyn HealStorageAPI> = Arc::new(MockStorage::default());
+        let mut request = HealRequest::bucket("bucket".to_string());
+        request.options.timeout = Some(Duration::from_secs(100));
+        let task = HealTask::from_request(request, storage.clone());
+        *task.task_start_instant.write().await = Some(Instant::now() - Duration::from_secs(40));
+
+        let retry = task
+            .retry_request_with_remaining_timeout()
+            .await
+            .expect("first retry should retain the unused timeout budget");
+        let first_remaining = retry.options.timeout.expect("configured timeout should remain present");
+        assert!(first_remaining <= Duration::from_secs(60));
+        assert!(first_remaining > Duration::from_secs(59));
+
+        let retry_task = HealTask::from_request(retry, storage);
+        *retry_task.task_start_instant.write().await = Some(Instant::now() - Duration::from_secs(20));
+        let second_retry = retry_task
+            .retry_request_with_remaining_timeout()
+            .await
+            .expect("second retry should retain only the unused aggregate budget");
+        let second_remaining = second_retry
+            .options
+            .timeout
+            .expect("configured timeout should remain present");
+        assert!(second_remaining <= Duration::from_secs(40));
+        assert!(second_remaining > Duration::from_secs(39));
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn format_result_requires_every_requested_target_to_be_ok() {
        let result = HealResultItem {
@@ -487,22 +487,21 @@ pub fn record_get_object_completion(total_duration_secs: f64, response_size_byte

 /// Record the streaming strategy chosen for a GetObject response body.
 #[inline(always)]
-pub fn record_get_object_stream_strategy(strategy: &str, buffer_size_bytes: usize, response_size_bytes: i64) {
+pub fn record_get_object_stream_strategy(strategy: &'static str, buffer_size_bytes: usize, response_size_bytes: i64) {
    if !get_stage_metrics_enabled() {
        return;
    }
-    counter!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_strategy_total", "strategy" => strategy.to_string()).increment(1);
-    histogram!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_buffer_size_bytes", "strategy" => strategy.to_string())
-        .record(usize_to_f64(buffer_size_bytes));
-    histogram!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_response_size_bytes", "strategy" => strategy.to_string())
+    counter!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_strategy_total", "strategy" => strategy).increment(1);
+    histogram!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_buffer_size_bytes", "strategy" => strategy).record(usize_to_f64(buffer_size_bytes));
+    histogram!("rustfs_io_get_object_stream_response_size_bytes", "strategy" => strategy)
        .record(i64_non_negative_to_f64(response_size_bytes));
 }

 /// Record the response-body handoff shape from a GetObject reader into the S3 streaming body.
 #[inline(always)]
 pub fn record_get_object_response_handoff(
-    strategy: &str,
-    buffer_source: &str,
+    strategy: &'static str,
+    buffer_source: &'static str,
    buffer_size_bytes: usize,
    response_size_bytes: i64,
    duration_secs: f64,
@@ -512,26 +511,26 @@ pub fn record_get_object_response_handoff(
    }
    counter!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_response_handoff_total",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string()
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source
    )
    .increment(1);
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_response_handoff_buffer_size_bytes",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string()
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source
    )
    .record(usize_to_f64(buffer_size_bytes));
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_response_handoff_response_size_bytes",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string()
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source
    )
    .record(i64_non_negative_to_f64(response_size_bytes));
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_response_handoff_duration_seconds",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string()
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source
    )
    .record(duration_secs);
    record_get_object_response_handoff_duration("s3_handler", duration_secs);
@@ -539,14 +538,18 @@ pub fn record_get_object_response_handoff(

 /// Record ReaderStream capacity chosen for GetObject handoff.
 #[inline(always)]
-pub fn record_get_object_reader_stream_buffer_size(strategy: &str, buffer_source: &str, buffer_size_bytes: usize) {
+pub fn record_get_object_reader_stream_buffer_size(
+    strategy: &'static str,
+    buffer_source: &'static str,
+    buffer_size_bytes: usize,
+) {
    if !get_stage_metrics_enabled() {
        return;
    }
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_buffer_size_bytes",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string()
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source
    )
    .record(usize_to_f64(buffer_size_bytes));
 }
@@ -554,8 +557,8 @@ pub fn record_get_object_reader_stream_buffer_size(strategy: &str, buffer_source
 /// Record ReaderStream poll outcomes for GetObject handoff attribution.
 #[inline(always)]
 pub fn record_get_object_reader_stream_poll(
-    strategy: &str,
-    buffer_source: &str,
+    strategy: &'static str,
+    buffer_source: &'static str,
    outcome: &'static str,
    remaining_before: usize,
    bytes: usize,
@@ -567,36 +570,36 @@ pub fn record_get_object_reader_stream_poll(
    let bytes = u64::try_from(bytes).unwrap_or(u64::MAX);
    counter!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_poll_total",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string(),
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source,
        "outcome" => outcome
    )
    .increment(1);
    counter!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_poll_bytes_total",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string(),
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source,
        "outcome" => outcome
    )
    .increment(bytes);
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_poll_remaining_bytes",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string(),
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source,
        "outcome" => outcome
    )
    .record(usize_to_f64(remaining_before));
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_poll_bytes",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string(),
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source,
        "outcome" => outcome
    )
    .record(usize_to_f64(bytes as usize));
    histogram!(
        "rustfs_io_get_object_reader_stream_poll_duration_seconds",
-        "strategy" => strategy.to_string(),
-        "buffer_source" => buffer_source.to_string(),
+        "strategy" => strategy,
+        "buffer_source" => buffer_source,
        "outcome" => outcome
    )
    .record(duration_secs);
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ pub struct KeystoneClient {
    admin_password: Option<String>,
    admin_project: Option<String>,
    admin_domain: String,
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "TLS verification flag parsed from config; the reqwest client is built before it is consulted, so nothing reads it back (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    verify_ssl: bool,
    /// Request timeout applied to the underlying HTTP client.
    timeout: std::time::Duration,
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ use tracing::{debug, info};

 /// Maps Keystone identities to RustFS concepts
 pub struct KeystoneIdentityMapper {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "keeps the Keystone client alive for the mapper's lifetime; the mapping paths do not call through it yet (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    client: Arc<KeystoneClient>,
    role_policy_map: HashMap<String, String>,
    enable_tenant_prefix: bool,
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 //! data encryption keys using master keys. It abstracts the encryption
 //! operations so that different backends can share the same encryption logic.

-#![allow(dead_code)] // Trait methods may be used by implementations
-
 use crate::error::{KmsError, Result};
 use crate::persisted_observability::{BoundedUnknownFieldName, UnknownFieldSummary};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
@@ -225,8 +225,6 @@ async fn nothing_readable_leaves_the_bundle_unwrapped() {
            "artifact {} carries the raw on-disk record",
            artifact.path
        );
-        // A cheap structural check too: an encrypted payload is not JSON.
-        assert_ne!(payload.first(), Some(&b'{'), "artifact {} looks like plaintext JSON", artifact.path);
    }

    // The manifest itself is not encrypted, so assert directly that it carries
@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ impl RuleEvents for RuleView {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct CompiledRules {
    // Keep RulesMap (can be used later if you want to make more complex judgments during the snapshot reading phase)
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "speculative retention: the comment above keeps it for richer snapshot-time judgements that no code performs yet (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    rules_map: RulesMap,
    // for RulesContainer::iter_rules
    rule_views: Vec<RuleView>,
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
    /// # Parameters
    /// * `event_name` - The EventName from which to remove the rule.
    /// * `pattern` - The pattern of the rule to be removed.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn remove_rule(&mut self, event_name: &EventName, pattern: &str) {
        let mut remove_event = false;

@@ -209,7 +208,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
    ///
    /// # Parameters
    /// * `event_names` - A slice of EventNames to be removed.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn remove_rules(&mut self, event_names: &[EventName]) {
        for event_name in event_names {
            self.map.remove(event_name);
@@ -223,7 +221,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
    /// * `event_name` - The EventName to update.
    /// * `pattern` - The pattern of the rule to be updated.
    /// * `target_id` - The TargetID to be added.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn update_rule(&mut self, event_name: EventName, pattern: String, target_id: TargetID) {
        self.map.entry(event_name).or_default().add(pattern, target_id);
        self.total_events_mask |= event_name.mask(); // Update only the relevant bitmask
@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ use rustfs_targets::arn::TargetID;
 /// TargetIDSet - A collection representation of TargetID.
 pub type TargetIdSet = HashSet<TargetID>;

-/// Provides a Go-like method for TargetIdSet (can be implemented as trait if needed)
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub(crate) fn new_target_id_set(target_ids: Vec<TargetID>) -> TargetIdSet {
-    target_ids.into_iter().collect()
-}
-
 // HashSet has built-in clone, union, difference and other operations.
 // But the Go version of the method returns a new Set, and the HashSet method is usually iterator or modify itself.
 // If you need to exactly match Go's API style, you can add wrapper functions.
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 /// Environment variable key for the global default metrics interval (seconds).
 pub const ENV_DEFAULT_METRICS_INTERVAL: &str = "RUSTFS_METRICS_DEFAULT_INTERVAL_SEC";
 /// Default interval for metrics collection if not specified otherwise.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub const DEFAULT_METRICS_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);

 /// Environment variable key for cluster metrics interval (seconds).
@@ -145,21 +145,18 @@ impl PrometheusMetric {
    }

    #[inline]
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn with_label(mut self, key: &'static str, value: impl Into<Cow<'static, str>>) -> Self {
        self.labels.push((key, value.into()));
        self
    }

    #[inline]
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn with_label_owned(mut self, key: &'static str, value: String) -> Self {
        self.labels.push((key, Cow::Owned(value)));
        self
    }

    #[inline]
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn with_labels(mut self, labels: Vec<(&'static str, Cow<'static, str>)>) -> Self {
        self.labels = labels;
        self
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ use crate::{MetricName, MetricNamespace, MetricSubsystem, MetricType};
 use std::collections::HashSet;

 /// MetricDescriptor - Metric descriptors
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct MetricDescriptor {
    pub name: MetricName,
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ impl MetricDescriptor {
    }

    /// Get the full metric name in Prometheus style: <namespace>_<subsystem>_<name>
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn get_full_metric_name(&self) -> String {
        let namespace = self.namespace.as_str();
        let formatted_subsystem = self.subsystem.as_str();
@@ -61,7 +59,6 @@ impl MetricDescriptor {
    }

    /// check whether the label is in the label set
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn has_label(&mut self, label: &str) -> bool {
        self.get_label_set().contains(label)
    }
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.

 /// The metric name is the individual name of the metric
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum MetricName {
    // The generic metric name
@@ -443,7 +442,6 @@ pub enum MetricName {
 }

 impl MetricName {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn as_str(&self) -> String {
        match self {
            Self::AuthTotal => "auth_total".to_string(),
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.

 /// MetricType - Indicates the type of indicator
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum MetricType {
    Counter,
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@ pub enum MetricType {

 impl MetricType {
    /// convert the metric type to a string representation
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            Self::Counter => "counter",
@@ -34,7 +32,6 @@ impl MetricType {

    /// Convert the metric type to the Prometheus value type
    /// In a Rust implementation, this might return the corresponding Prometheus Rust client type
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn as_prom(&self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            Self::Counter => "counter.",
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ pub fn new_gauge_md(
 }

 /// create a new histogram indicator descriptor
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn new_histogram_md(
    name: impl Into<MetricName>,
    help: impl Into<String>,
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ pub enum MetricNamespace {
 }

 impl MetricNamespace {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            Self::RustFS => "rustfs",
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@

 /// Format the path to the metric name format
 /// Replace '/' and '-' with '_'
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn format_path_to_metric_name(path: &str) -> String {
    path.trim_start_matches('/').replace(['/', '-'], "_")
 }
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ impl MetricSubsystem {
    }

    /// Get the formatted metric name format string
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn as_str(&self) -> String {
        format_path_to_metric_name(self.path())
    }
@@ -151,7 +150,6 @@ impl MetricSubsystem {
    }

    /// A convenient way to create custom subsystems directly
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
    pub fn new(path: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        Self::Custom(path.into())
    }
@@ -176,7 +174,6 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for MetricSubsystem {
    }
 }

-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub mod subsystems {
    use super::MetricSubsystem;

@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ pub enum Rotation {
    Minutely,
    Hourly,
    Daily,
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "constructed only by this file's rolling-appender tests; the lib target cannot see them (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
    Never,
 }

@@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ impl PartialEq for Functions {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub struct Value;
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use crate::policy::Functions;
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.

-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn is_simple_match<P, N>(pattern: P, name: N) -> bool
 where
    P: AsRef<str>,
@@ -29,7 +28,10 @@ where
    inner_match(pattern, name, false)
 }

-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "prefix-matcher asserted by this file's tests; no production caller yet (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn is_match_as_pattern_prefix<P, N>(pattern: P, text: N) -> bool
 where
    P: AsRef<str>,
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 /// - Account format is invalid
 /// - Credentials don't contain project_id
 /// - Account project_id doesn't match credentials project_id
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by Swift implementation
 pub fn validate_account_access(account: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<String> {
    // Extract project_id from account (strip "AUTH_" prefix)
    let account_project_id = account
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ pub fn validate_account_access(account: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> Swif
 ///
 /// Admin users (with "admin" or "reseller_admin" roles) can perform
 /// cross-tenant operations and administrative tasks.
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by Swift implementation
 pub fn is_admin_user(credentials: &Credentials) -> bool {
    credentials
        .claims
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ impl ContainerMapper {
    /// - S3 bucket name compatible (only uses [a-z0-9-])
    /// - Deterministic mapping (same input always produces same bucket name)
    /// - Fixed-length prefix (16 hex chars = 8 bytes)
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: create/delete container operations
    pub fn swift_to_s3_bucket(&self, container: &str, project_id: &str) -> String {
        if self.config.tenant_prefix_enabled {
            let hash = self.hash_project_id(project_id);
@@ -216,7 +215,6 @@ pub fn bucket_info_to_container(info: &BucketInfo, mapper: &ContainerMapper, pro
 /// 2. Lists all S3 buckets
 /// 3. Filters to buckets belonging to this tenant (using tenant prefix)
 /// 4. Converts BucketInfo to Swift Container format
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler: list containers
 pub async fn list_containers(account: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<Vec<Container>> {
    // Validate account access and extract project_id
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -279,7 +277,6 @@ pub async fn list_containers(account: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftR
 /// - Returns 201 Created on success
 /// - Returns 202 Accepted if container already exists
 /// - Returns 400 Bad Request for invalid container names
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn create_container(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<bool> {
    // Validate account access and extract project_id
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -348,7 +345,6 @@ fn validate_container_name(container: &str) -> SwiftResult<()> {
 }

 /// Container metadata for HEAD response
-#[allow(dead_code)] // TODO: Remove once Swift API integration is complete
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct ContainerMetadata {
    /// Number of objects in container
@@ -411,7 +407,6 @@ pub(crate) async fn get_container_custom_metadata(
 /// - HEAD /v1/{account}/{container} returns container metadata
 /// - Returns 204 No Content on success with headers
 /// - Returns 404 Not Found if container doesn't exist
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn get_container_metadata(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<ContainerMetadata> {
    let (bucket_name, bucket_info, custom_metadata) = get_container_metadata_base(account, container, credentials).await?;

@@ -448,7 +443,6 @@ pub async fn get_container_metadata(account: &str, container: &str, credentials:
 /// - The update is additive: items the request does not name keep their stored
 ///   value, and removal is explicit, via `X-Remove-Container-Meta-{name}` or an
 ///   empty value
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn update_container_metadata(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -520,7 +514,6 @@ pub async fn update_container_metadata(
 /// - Returns 204 No Content on success
 /// - Returns 404 Not Found if container doesn't exist
 /// - Returns 409 Conflict if container is not empty
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn delete_container(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<()> {
    // Validate account access and extract project_id
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -603,7 +596,6 @@ pub async fn delete_container(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Cred
 /// - Account validation fails
 /// - Container doesn't exist
 /// - Storage layer errors occur
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: GET container
 pub async fn list_objects(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -706,7 +698,6 @@ pub async fn list_objects(
 /// Versioning configuration is stored as an S3 bucket tag:
 /// - Tag key: `swift-versions-location`
 /// - Tag value: archive container name
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn enable_versioning(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -795,7 +786,6 @@ pub async fn enable_versioning(
 /// * `account` - Account identifier
 /// * `container` - Container name to disable versioning on
 /// * `credentials` - Keystone credentials
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn disable_versioning(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<()> {
    // Validate account access
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -855,7 +845,6 @@ pub async fn disable_versioning(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Cr
 /// # Returns
 /// - Some(archive_container_name) if versioning is enabled
 /// - None if versioning is not enabled
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler and object.rs
 pub async fn get_versions_location(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<Option<String>> {
    // Validate account access
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -918,7 +907,6 @@ pub async fn get_versions_location(account: &str, container: &str, credentials:
 ///     &credentials
 /// ).await?;
 /// ```
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn set_container_acl(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -1022,7 +1010,6 @@ pub async fn set_container_acl(
 ///     println!("Container is publicly readable");
 /// }
 /// ```
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn get_container_acl(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -1083,7 +1070,6 @@ pub async fn get_container_acl(
 ///
 /// # Returns
 /// Ok(()) if ACLs were deleted successfully
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by handler
 pub async fn delete_container_acl(account: &str, container: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<()> {
    // Setting both ACLs to None removes them
    set_container_acl(account, container, None, None, credentials).await
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ use std::fmt;

 /// Swift-specific error type
 #[derive(Debug)]
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Error variants used by Swift implementation
 pub enum SwiftError {
    /// 400 Bad Request
    BadRequest(String),
@@ -122,12 +122,10 @@ fn swift_user_metadata(headers: &HeaderMap) -> Option<HashMap<String, String>> {
 ///
 /// Handles URL encoding/decoding and path normalization for Swift object keys.
 /// Swift object names can contain any UTF-8 characters except null bytes.
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
 pub struct ObjectKeyMapper;

 impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    /// Create a new object key mapper
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self
    }
@@ -140,7 +138,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    /// - Not contain null bytes
    /// - Not contain '..' path segments (directory traversal)
    /// - Not start with '/' (leading slash handled by routing)
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn validate_object_name(object: &str) -> SwiftResult<()> {
        if object.is_empty() {
            return Err(SwiftError::BadRequest("Object name cannot be empty".to_string()));
@@ -183,7 +180,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    /// Example:
    /// - Swift: "photos/vacation/beach photo.jpg"
    /// - S3: "photos/vacation/beach photo.jpg"
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn swift_to_s3_key(object: &str) -> SwiftResult<String> {
        Self::validate_object_name(object)?;
        Ok(object.to_string())
@@ -193,7 +189,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    ///
    /// This is essentially an identity transformation since we store
    /// Swift object names as-is in S3.
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn s3_to_swift_name(key: &str) -> String {
        key.to_string()
    }
@@ -208,7 +203,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    /// - Object: "vacation/beach.jpg"
    /// - Bucket: "abc123:photos"
    /// - Key: "vacation/beach.jpg"
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn build_s3_key(object: &str) -> SwiftResult<String> {
        Self::swift_to_s3_key(object)
    }
@@ -220,7 +214,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    ///
    /// Example URL: /v1/AUTH_abc/container/path%2Fto%2Ffile.txt
    /// Decoded: "path/to/file.txt"
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn decode_object_from_url(encoded: &str) -> SwiftResult<String> {
        // Decode percent-encoding
        let decoded = urlencoding::decode(encoded).map_err(|e| SwiftError::BadRequest(format!("Invalid URL encoding: {}", e)))?;
@@ -233,7 +226,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    ///
    /// When constructing URLs (e.g., for redirect responses), we need to
    /// percent-encode object names.
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn encode_object_for_url(object: &str) -> String {
        urlencoding::encode(object).to_string()
    }
@@ -241,7 +233,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    /// Check if object name represents a directory (pseudo-directory)
    ///
    /// In Swift, objects ending with '/' are treated as directory markers.
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn is_directory_marker(object: &str) -> bool {
        object.ends_with('/')
    }
@@ -250,7 +241,6 @@ impl ObjectKeyMapper {
    ///
    /// Removes redundant slashes and normalizes the path while preserving
    /// trailing slashes for directory markers.
-    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used in: object operations
    pub fn normalize_path(object: &str) -> String {
        // Split by '/', filter out empty segments (except if it's the end)
        let has_trailing_slash = object.ends_with('/');
@@ -324,7 +314,6 @@ fn sanitize_storage_error<E: std::fmt::Display>(operation: &str, error: E) -> Sw
 /// # Returns
 /// * `Ok(etag)` - Object ETag on success
 /// * `Err(SwiftError)` - Error if validation fails or upload fails
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: PUT object
 pub async fn put_object<R>(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -445,7 +434,6 @@ where
 ///
 /// Similar to put_object, but allows directly specifying metadata instead of extracting from headers.
 /// This is used internally for storing SLO manifests and marker objects.
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Used by SLO implementation
 pub async fn put_object_with_metadata<R>(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -549,7 +537,6 @@ where
 /// - `bytes=1000-1999` - Bytes 1000-1999
 /// - `bytes=1000-` - From byte 1000 to end
 /// - `bytes=-500` - Last 500 bytes
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: GET object
 pub async fn get_object(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -608,7 +595,6 @@ pub async fn get_object(
 /// # Returns
 /// * `Ok(object_info)` - Object metadata (ObjectInfo)
 /// * `Err(SwiftError)` - Error if validation fails or object not found
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: HEAD object
 pub async fn head_object(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -671,7 +657,6 @@ pub async fn head_object(
 /// # Returns
 /// * `Ok(())` - Object deleted successfully (or didn't exist)
 /// * `Err(SwiftError)` - Error if validation fails or deletion fails
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: DELETE object
 pub async fn delete_object(account: &str, container: &str, object: &str, credentials: &Credentials) -> SwiftResult<()> {
    // 1. Validate account access and get project_id
    let project_id = validate_account_access(account, credentials)?;
@@ -732,7 +717,6 @@ pub async fn delete_object(account: &str, container: &str, object: &str, credent
 /// # Returns
 /// * `Ok(())` - Metadata updated successfully
 /// * `Err(SwiftError)` - Error if validation fails, object not found, or update fails
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: POST object
 pub async fn update_object_metadata(
    account: &str,
    container: &str,
@@ -846,7 +830,6 @@ pub async fn update_object_metadata(
 /// # Handler Integration Note
 /// The current handler architecture needs to be updated to pass headers through
 /// to support COPY method and X-Copy-From header detection. See handler.rs for details.
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: COPY object
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] // Necessary for full copy functionality
 pub async fn copy_object(
    src_account: &str,
@@ -979,7 +962,6 @@ pub async fn copy_object(
 /// assert_eq!(container, "my-container");
 /// assert_eq!(object, "path/to/file.txt");
 /// ```
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: COPY method
 pub fn parse_destination_header(destination: &str) -> SwiftResult<(String, String)> {
    let destination = destination.trim_start_matches('/');
    let parts: Vec<&str> = destination.splitn(2, '/').collect();
@@ -1013,7 +995,6 @@ pub fn parse_destination_header(destination: &str) -> SwiftResult<(String, Strin
 /// # Returns
 /// * `Ok((container, object))` - Parsed container and object names
 /// * `Err(SwiftError)` - Error if format is invalid
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: X-Copy-From
 pub fn parse_copy_from_header(copy_from: &str) -> SwiftResult<(String, String)> {
    // Same parsing logic as Destination header
    parse_destination_header(copy_from)
@@ -1042,7 +1023,6 @@ pub fn parse_copy_from_header(copy_from: &str) -> SwiftResult<(String, String)>
 /// assert_eq!(range.start, 0);
 /// assert_eq!(range.end, 1023);
 /// ```
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: Range header
 pub fn parse_range_header(range_str: &str) -> SwiftResult<HTTPRangeSpec> {
    if !range_str.starts_with("bytes=") {
        return Err(SwiftError::BadRequest("Range header must start with 'bytes='".to_string()));
@@ -1124,7 +1104,6 @@ pub fn parse_range_header(range_str: &str) -> SwiftResult<HTTPRangeSpec> {
 /// let header = format_content_range(0, 1023, 5000);
 /// assert_eq!(header, "bytes 0-1023/5000");
 /// ```
-#[allow(dead_code)] // Handler integration: Range header
 pub fn format_content_range(start: i64, end: i64, total: i64) -> String {
    format!("bytes {}-{}/{}", start, end, total)
 }
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