Order the records the way the system is learned
Jochen asked whether the order made sense. It did not -- it followed when things happened to be decided, which after consolidation is fictional anyway since record 5 alone folds decisions taken across a week. Concretely wrong before: the domain statement sat at 8, after five engineering rules; the constitution was scattered across 5, 12 and 17; the tiers landed at 15, 16, 21 and 22 with process records in between. Now it walks: what the mesh is (1-3), its tiers from the bottom up (4-8), what runs on them and how it gets there (9-10), how it is built (11-16), how it is checked (17-18), how we work (19-23). Two things made this safe rather than free. It is a permutation, not a compaction, so the renames go through temporary names -- otherwise two files want one slot and one is lost. And the reference rewrite is a single simultaneous pass, because almost every number moved into a slot another number was vacating; replacing one at a time would have cascaded and pointed things at the wrong record while still resolving. Verified: 284 [ADR NNNN](path) links across the repository, all with matching text and target. The ordering principle is now stated in 19 rather than left implicit -- the repository already said "the numbering is the flow" about its folders, and there was no reason for the records to be the exception.
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code: [mesh-lab]
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updated: 2026-08-24
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decisions:
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- 02-DECISIONS/0009-the-lab.md
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- 02-DECISIONS/0023-delivery.md
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- 02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md
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- 02-DECISIONS/0010-delivery.md
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---
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# Installing the lab on a clean machine
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The lab has prerequisites — a virtualisation daemon, copy-on-write storage, a pool, an identity
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permitted to talk to it — and it cannot get them from the mesh, because it is where the mesh is
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built ([ADR 0009](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-the-lab.md)).
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built ([ADR 0016](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md)).
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So the lab needs an install path of its own. This describes it, and the shape it has to take is
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determined by two failures observed while measuring
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**The lab refuses to run degraded.** It does not warn and continue: a warning about a slow inner
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loop is read once and ignored forever, and the loop stays slow. This is
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[ADR 0023](../../02-DECISIONS/0023-delivery.md) applied where the failure is
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[ADR 0010](../../02-DECISIONS/0010-delivery.md) applied where the failure is
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performance rather than an error.
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## Two ways the prerequisites arrive
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