Four minutes
The filesystem on /dev/nvme0n1p3 was created at 2026-01-19T22:41:08Z; the
superblock says so, and so does the install log on the provisioning server,
which is a different machine and agrees to the second. Every inode on it has a
creation time at or after that, except inode 262147, which is
/var/lib/gild/state.db and was created at 2026-01-19T22:37:14Z. The file is
81,920 bytes. It is a valid SQLite database with one table, runs, holding
4,112 rows; the schema matches the gild service exactly, including a column
that was added in the version we deployed in March. The most recent row has a
finished_at of 2026-01-19T22:36:51Z, which is twenty-three seconds before the
file was created and seventeen minutes before the disk was partitioned, and the
host column on all 4,112 rows contains the hostname this machine was given at
first boot, four hours later, by an operator who chose it herself off a list of
rivers. We have not deleted it. gild opens it at start-up, appends to it
nightly, and has never once complained.