diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/kept.go b/cmd/mesh-host/kept.go
index 6f9ed3a..b50151c 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/kept.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/kept.go
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ func judgeAccess(a judgedAccess) verdict {
 				What: apply.DiskWords(a.name)}}}
 	case apply.VerdictRoot:
 		return verdict{state: link.StateUnhealthy, reason: apply.RootWords(v.Why)}
+	case apply.VerdictUnknown:
+		// Not a fault and not the operator's: said as not known, and judged again on the next look.
+		return verdict{state: link.StateUnknown, reason: v.Why + "; judged again on the next look"}
 	case apply.VerdictBroken:
 		// Its words carry no path (AccessVerdict says them so): the reason reaches the operator's channel.
 		return verdict{state: link.StateUnhealthy, reason: v.Why}
diff --git a/internal/apply/keep.go b/internal/apply/keep.go
index dbd31d9..dad5a6f 100644
--- a/internal/apply/keep.go
+++ b/internal/apply/keep.go
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ const (
 	folderWaitDisk = "wait-disk"
 	// folderRoot is root's data on its placed filesystem: never kept.
 	folderRoot = "root"
+	// folderUnknown is a folder whose filesystem could not be named: left as it is until it is.
+	folderUnknown = "unknown"
 )
 
 // folderVerdict is the judgement of one folder, with what it read.
@@ -249,6 +251,13 @@ func assessFolder(ctx context.Context, path string, rec store.KeptFolder, taken
 	// Another filesystem at the same mount point (another pool, another disk) is a move too. A record from an earlier
 	// build names its filesystem another way, and is not compared: the next keep names it this way.
 	here := PlacedID(pl.Mount)
+	// **A filesystem that cannot be named now is unknown, never a move** (a name read that did not answer, a
+	// filesystem with no UUID, id or source): the folder holds what it is — nothing walked, nothing newly kept,
+	// nothing reset — and is judged again when it is named. One never kept is so never kept: it fails closed.
+	if here == "" {
+		return folderVerdict{kind: folderUnknown, mount: pl.Mount, unnamed: true,
+			why: "its filesystem could not be named this time (no UUID, filesystem id or source answered)"}
+	}
 	moved := pl.Moved || (rec.Fs != "" && rec.Mount == pl.Mount && rec.Placed != here)
 	facts, err := readFolder(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -257,11 +266,6 @@ func assessFolder(ctx context.Context, path string, rec store.KeptFolder, taken
 	if why := rootOwned(facts.UID, facts.GID); why != "" {
 		return folderVerdict{kind: folderRoot, mount: pl.Mount, why: "it is " + why}
 	}
-	// A filesystem that cannot be named is never kept: what is there could be anyone's (§8).
-	if here == "" {
-		return folderVerdict{kind: folderWaitKeep, mount: pl.Mount, moved: moved, unnamed: true,
-			why: "its filesystem cannot be named (no UUID, no filesystem id, no source)"}
-	}
 	// The controller's word that the folder was taken holds for the filesystem the warrant was carried out on: a
 	// folder moved to another is not taken, and asks again (§8).
 	takenHere := taken && (rec.TakenOn == here || (rec.TakenOn == "" && !moved))
@@ -520,6 +524,10 @@ func applyAccessFolder(ctx context.Context, r *declaration.Access, in inputs) (O
 		note += "; its grant is no longer acted on: the mesh puts no account in a group for data (novox/hq ADR 0325 §5)"
 	}
 	switch v.kind {
+	case folderUnknown:
+		out.Action = "waiting"
+		out.Detail = v.why + ": the folder is left exactly as it is, and judged again on the next apply" + note
+		return out, nil
 	case folderWaitDisk:
 		out.Action = "waiting"
 		out.Detail = "the disk that holds it is not there: nothing is made, and nothing mounts it until it is " +
@@ -792,6 +800,8 @@ const (
 	VerdictWaitDisk = "wait-disk"
 	VerdictRoot     = "root"
 	VerdictBroken   = "broken"
+	// VerdictUnknown is a folder whose filesystem could not be named this look: neither kept nor faulted.
+	VerdictUnknown = "unknown"
 	// VerdictNobody is a folder no identity uses: nothing is kept, and only a missing disk is said.
 	VerdictNobody = "nobody"
 )
@@ -813,6 +823,8 @@ func AccessVerdict(ctx context.Context, path string, taken, used bool) AccessJud
 		return AccessJudgement{Kind: VerdictBroken, Why: pathless(v.err)}
 	case v.kind == folderWaitDisk:
 		return AccessJudgement{Kind: VerdictWaitDisk}
+	case v.kind == folderUnknown:
+		return AccessJudgement{Kind: VerdictUnknown, Why: v.why}
 	case !used:
 		return AccessJudgement{Kind: VerdictNobody}
 	case v.kind == folderRoot:
diff --git a/internal/apply/keeper_linux.go b/internal/apply/keeper_linux.go
index 8e710e2..a4f6afc 100644
--- a/internal/apply/keeper_linux.go
+++ b/internal/apply/keeper_linux.go
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ func reconcileOne(ctx context.Context, path string, f store.KeptFolder) []string
 			why = pathless(v.err)
 		case v.kind == folderRoot:
 			why = RootWords(v.why)
+		case v.kind == folderUnknown:
+			why = v.why
 		case v.moved || v.kind == folderWaitKeep:
 			why = "what is at it now is not what the mesh kept there"
 		}
diff --git a/internal/apply/kept_test.go b/internal/apply/kept_test.go
index 3fab036..326be71 100644
--- a/internal/apply/kept_test.go
+++ b/internal/apply/kept_test.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -1370,7 +1371,7 @@ func TestNamingAHungFilesystemIsOneReadPerMount(t *testing.T) {
 		<-release
 		return ""
 	}
-	defer func() { close(release); MountUUID, statBound = was, wasBound }()
+	defer func() { close(release); flightsDone(t); MountUUID, statBound = was, wasBound }()
 	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
 		if id := PlacedID("/a/dead/mount"); id != "" {
 			t.Fatalf("a filesystem that does not answer is named %s", id)
@@ -1382,3 +1383,66 @@ func TestNamingAHungFilesystemIsOneReadPerMount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("%d reads of one mount were started while the first hung", started)
 	}
 }
+
+// Review (sixth): a name read that does not answer is unknown, never a move — a folder kept while empty and filled
+// since is not asked about again, a warranted one is not walked again, and nothing of either record is reset.
+func TestAFilesystemNotNamedThisTimeIsNeverAMove(t *testing.T) {
+	uuid, fsid, source := "6f1c0a4e-1b2d-4c3e-8f00-aa11bb22cc33", "0000080100000000", "/dev/sdb1"
+	_, lib, access := poolNamed(t, &uuid, &fsid, &source)
+	// The name's reads hang past their bound while hanging is set; installed once, before anything reads it.
+	var hanging atomic.Bool
+	release := make(chan struct{})
+	named := MountUUID
+	MountUUID = func(p string) string {
+		if hanging.Load() {
+			<-release
+		}
+		return named(p)
+	}
+	takeIt(t, lib, access)
+	taken := strings.Replace(access, `"taken":false`, `"taken":true`, 1)
+	before, _ := keptRecord(lib)
+
+	wasBound := statBound
+	statBound = 20 * time.Millisecond
+	hanging.Store(true)
+	report, _, err := applyAccesses(t, store.State{}, taken)
+	hanging.Store(false)
+	close(release)
+	flightsDone(t)
+	statBound = wasBound
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if o := outcomeOf(report, "radarr.media"); o.Action != "waiting" || !strings.Contains(o.Detail, "could not be named") {
+		t.Fatalf("a folder whose filesystem was not named this time is not said so: %+v", o)
+	}
+	after, _ := keptRecord(lib)
+	if !after.Kept || after.Placed != before.Placed || after.TakenOn != before.TakenOn || len(after.Left) != 0 ||
+		!sameUsers(after.Users, before.Users) {
+		t.Fatalf("the record was reset by a name not read:\nbefore %+v\nafter  %+v", before, after)
+	}
+
+	// Named again: kept as it was, with nothing asked and nothing walked.
+	waitFor(t, "the hung read returned", func() bool { return PlacedID(filepath.Dir(lib)) == before.Placed })
+	report, _, err = applyAccesses(t, store.State{}, taken)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if o := outcomeOf(report, "radarr.media"); o.Action == "waiting" {
+		t.Fatalf("named again, the folder asks again: %+v", o)
+	}
+	if r, _ := keptRecord(lib); r.Act == nil || r.Act.Act != "take" {
+		t.Errorf("the folder was walked again: %+v", r.Act)
+	}
+}
+
+// flightsDone waits until no read of a hung test is in flight: it goes on reading the stand-ins after its release.
+func flightsDone(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+	waitFor(t, "the hung reads returned", func() bool {
+		inFlight.Lock()
+		defer inFlight.Unlock()
+		return len(inFlight.reads) == 0
+	})
+}