Running the repair for sow-tools#88 disproved the advice #90 had just
landed. "Purge the zone, then believe verify" assumed the stale set was
unknowable. It is not: verify reads the edge, so a run straight after a
repair names every key the edge is still serving stale — a survey, not a
verdict. Purge those, re-run, and the second run is the verdict.
The measured numbers are the argument. The repair rewrote 2,603 blobs at
the origin; 8 were stale at the edge, all of them ones a failed player
sync had pulled ninety minutes earlier. The edge only caches what someone
fetched, so purging the whole zone would have cooled 69,169 objects to
fix 8.
Refs #88, #89, #75.
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