diff --git a/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs b/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs
index 05f94f5..91a74e3 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs
@@ -837,6 +837,19 @@ impl Db {
     /// drain replaces it with the uid the server assigns.
     pub const LOCAL_VOLUME: &str = "local";
 
+    /// Whether op `id` is still queued. A drain worker that claimed it can find
+    /// it gone: the node was deleted, or a newer write superseded it, while the
+    /// worker was talking to the server.
+    pub fn op_exists(&self, id: i64) -> Result<bool> {
+        let conn = self.read();
+        let count: i64 = conn.query_row(
+            "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pending_op WHERE id = ?1",
+            params![id],
+            |row| row.get(0),
+        )?;
+        Ok(count > 0)
+    }
+
     /// Drop a queued op, once its upload has actually landed.
     pub fn delete_op(&self, id: i64) -> Result<()> {
         let conn = self.conn.lock();
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs b/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs
index f86b995..ab46761 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs
@@ -5209,3 +5209,28 @@ fn retry_all_touches_only_ops_that_have_failed() {
     assert_eq!(due(debounced), 7_000);
     assert_eq!(due(parked), ops::PARK_UNTIL);
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn a_queued_op_stops_existing_once_the_node_is_deleted() {
+    let db = Db::open_in_memory().unwrap();
+    let (id, _) = db
+        .enqueue_op(&PendingOp {
+            id: 0,
+            kind: OP_REVISION.to_string(),
+            uid: uid("journal").to_string(),
+            parent_uid: None,
+            name: None,
+            blob_path: Some("/staging/journal".to_string()),
+            meta_json: Some("{}".to_string()),
+            created_at: 1,
+            attempts: 0,
+            last_error: None,
+            next_attempt_at: 0,
+        })
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(db.op_exists(id).unwrap());
+
+    let blobs = db.delete_ops_for_uid(&uid("journal").to_string()).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(blobs, vec!["/staging/journal"]);
+    assert!(!db.op_exists(id).unwrap());
+}
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs
index 655a1db..d588552 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs
@@ -1486,6 +1486,16 @@ impl Core {
         let uid = parse_node_uid(&meta.uid).ok_or("staged write has an unparseable uid")?;
 
         if let Some(reason) = self.revision_conflict(&uid, &meta)? {
+            // Trashing the file from the mount drops its queued write, but not
+            // from under a worker already holding it. That worker then finds the
+            // node trashed — by us — and would upload the withdrawn bytes as a
+            // conflict copy (a `recovered-…` file in the root when the tree has
+            // already forgotten the node). A write nobody queues any more is
+            // not a conflict.
+            if !self.db.op_exists(op.id)? {
+                debug!(%uid, reason, "queued write withdrawn while it drained; dropping it");
+                return Ok(());
+            }
             return self.keep_as_conflict_copy(op, &blob, &meta, &uid, &reason);
         }
 
@@ -1522,6 +1532,12 @@ impl Core {
         // this is on the wire can stop it rather than paying for a revision the
         // op it queued will immediately replace.
         let cancel = self.begin_cancellable_upload(&uid);
+        // An unlink that withdrew this op before the flag above existed had no
+        // upload to cancel; the row is the record that it happened.
+        if !self.db.op_exists(op.id)? {
+            debug!(%uid, "queued write withdrawn before it went out; dropping it");
+            return Ok(());
+        }
         let reader = CountingReader::new(File::open(&blob)?, &guard).with_cancel(cancel.flag());
         let started = Instant::now();
         let sent = self.rt.block_on(self.client.upload_new_revision_from(
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/filesystem.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/filesystem.rs
index bbabe15..2cf2268 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/filesystem.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/filesystem.rs
@@ -1743,12 +1743,18 @@ impl ProtonFs {
         if let Some(uid) = unlinked_uid
             && release_can_discard_unlinked(&self.core.db, &uid)
         {
+            // Ops withdrawn at unlink left the bytes this handle read behind,
+            // owned by no op any more; they go with the last handle.
+            let withdrawn = self.core.pending_blob(&uid);
             if let Err(error) = self.core.discard_queued_ops(&uid) {
                 warn!(%uid, ?error, "queued-op cleanup failed; retaining unlinked state");
             } else {
                 if let Err(error) = self.core.db.delete_node(&uid) {
                     warn!(%uid, %error, "deleting released unlinked node state failed");
                 }
+                if let Some(blob) = withdrawn {
+                    self.core.cache.discard_staged(&blob);
+                }
                 self.core.cache.evict(&uid);
                 self.core.evict_reader(&uid);
             }
@@ -2129,7 +2135,12 @@ impl ProtonFs {
         // it just means its queued creation is no longer wanted. This works
         // offline, which the remote path below cannot (offline.md Phase 3b).
         if is_local_uid(&uid) {
-            if !open_now && let Err(error) = self.core.discard_queued_ops(&uid) {
+            let dropped = if open_now {
+                self.core.withdraw_queued_ops(&uid)
+            } else {
+                self.core.discard_queued_ops(&uid)
+            };
+            if let Err(error) = dropped {
                 reply.error(error);
                 return;
             }
@@ -2168,7 +2179,13 @@ impl ProtonFs {
         // Otherwise an EIO response still made the path disappear locally.
         self.core.hidden.lock().insert(uid.clone());
         self.core.state().forget_or_unlink(&uid);
-        if !open_now {
+        if open_now {
+            // The open handle keeps the staged bytes; the drain must not send
+            // them to a node that is already in the trash (docs/BUGS.md B106).
+            if let Err(error) = self.core.withdraw_queued_ops(&uid) {
+                warn!(%uid, ?error, "remote trash landed but queued-op cleanup failed");
+            }
+        } else {
             if let Err(error) = self.core.discard_queued_ops(&uid) {
                 warn!(%uid, ?error, "remote trash landed but queued-op cleanup failed");
             }
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs
index b01a139..98006a8 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs
@@ -3539,6 +3539,30 @@ impl Core {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    /// Drop every op queued against a node that just left the namespace while
+    /// a handle still has it open, but keep the bytes that handle reads.
+    ///
+    /// The ops cannot wait for the final close: the node is already trashed, and
+    /// a revision the drain sends in the meantime lands on it after the trash —
+    /// an editor's save loop then found the name it was renaming onto still
+    /// taken (`docs/BUGS.md` B106). The pending entry and its staged blob are
+    /// what the open handle reads, so they stay until the final close drops
+    /// them.
+    fn withdraw_queued_ops(&self, uid: &NodeUid) -> Result<(), Errno> {
+        self.cancel_upload(uid);
+        let blobs = self.db.delete_ops_for_uid(&uid.to_string()).map_err(|e| {
+            error!(%uid, error = %e, "withdrawing queued ops failed");
+            Errno::EIO
+        })?;
+        let read_from = self.pending_blob(uid);
+        let blobs = blobs
+            .into_iter()
+            .filter(|blob| read_from.as_deref() != Some(Path::new(blob)))
+            .collect();
+        self.release_dropped_below(blobs);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     /// Let go of what the ops just dropped for `uid` held: their pending
     /// entries, any upload still reading their bytes, and the bytes.
     ///
@@ -3546,9 +3570,15 @@ impl Core {
     /// (`docs/BUGS.md` B102), so the entries to forget are found by blob, not
     /// only by `uid`.
     fn release_dropped_ops(&self, uid: &NodeUid, blobs: Vec<String>) {
+        self.pending.lock().remove(uid);
+        self.release_dropped_below(blobs);
+    }
+
+    /// [`Core::release_dropped_ops`] without touching the node's own pending
+    /// entry.
+    fn release_dropped_below(&self, blobs: Vec<String>) {
         let below: Vec<NodeUid> = {
             let mut pending = self.pending.lock();
-            pending.remove(uid);
             let below: Vec<NodeUid> = pending
                 .iter()
                 .filter(|(_, p)| blobs.iter().any(|b| p.path == Path::new(b)))
@@ -4420,11 +4450,21 @@ impl Core {
     /// A node whose own creation is still queued has never reached the server, so
     /// dropping its queued ops is the whole removal; nothing goes to the wire and
     /// it works offline.
+    ///
+    /// A handle still open on the replaced node keeps reading its bytes, as
+    /// `rename(2)` promises: the inode stays as an unlinked entry and its
+    /// staged bytes, cache and reader go at the final close, exactly as for an
+    /// `unlink` under an open handle. Its queued ops go now, or the drain would
+    /// upload to the node after it was trashed (`docs/BUGS.md` B106).
     fn remove_replaced(&self, uid: &NodeUid, name: &str) -> Result<(), Errno> {
         if is_local_uid(uid) {
-            self.discard_queued_ops(uid)?;
+            if self.is_open_anywhere(uid) {
+                self.withdraw_queued_ops(uid)?;
+            } else {
+                self.discard_queued_ops(uid)?;
+            }
             self.for_each_state(|st| {
-                st.forget(uid);
+                st.forget_or_unlink(uid);
             });
             debug!(%uid, name, "replaced a node whose create was still queued");
             return Ok(());
@@ -4439,17 +4479,26 @@ impl Core {
             self.log_activity(ActivityKind::Trash, name, e.to_string(), false);
             return Err(Errno::EIO);
         }
-        if let Err(error) = self.discard_queued_ops(uid) {
-            error!(%uid, "remote replacement landed but queued-op cleanup failed");
-            return Err(error);
-        }
         // The node was trashed on the server; withdraw it from every inode
         // space that had it, not only the mount the rename came through.
+        let open_now = self.is_open_anywhere(uid);
         self.for_each_state(|st| {
-            st.forget(uid);
+            st.forget_or_unlink(uid);
         });
-        self.cache.evict(uid);
-        self.evict_reader(uid);
+        self.hidden.lock().insert(uid.clone());
+        if open_now {
+            if let Err(error) = self.withdraw_queued_ops(uid) {
+                error!(%uid, "remote replacement landed but queued-op cleanup failed");
+                return Err(error);
+            }
+        } else {
+            if let Err(error) = self.discard_queued_ops(uid) {
+                error!(%uid, "remote replacement landed but queued-op cleanup failed");
+                return Err(error);
+            }
+            self.cache.evict(uid);
+            self.evict_reader(uid);
+        }
         self.invalidate_trash();
         // The node is recoverable from the trash, but only if the user knows it
         // went there — a rename is not an operation anyone expects to trash
@@ -4463,6 +4512,19 @@ impl Core {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    /// Whether any mount holds an open handle on `uid`.
+    fn is_open_anywhere(&self, uid: &NodeUid) -> bool {
+        let mut open = false;
+        self.for_each_state(|st| {
+            open |= st
+                .by_uid
+                .get(uid)
+                .and_then(|ino| st.entries.get(ino))
+                .is_some_and(|entry| entry.open_count > 0);
+        });
+        open
+    }
+
     /// Put back the node [`Core::remove_replaced`] trashed, after the rename it
     /// was clearing the way for failed anyway.
     ///
@@ -7946,6 +8008,7 @@ mod tests {
             ("fn enqueue_staged_write(", "attach_blob_to_create"),
             ("fn queue_trash(", "replace_ops_with_trash"),
             ("fn discard_queued_ops(", "delete_ops_for_uid"),
+            ("fn withdraw_queued_ops(", "delete_ops_for_uid"),
         ] {
             let function = function_source(source, signature);
             assert_before(function, "cancel_upload", mutation);
@@ -8006,6 +8069,84 @@ mod tests {
         assert_before(folder, "require_uid_writable(parent_uid)", ".create_folder");
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_replaced_node_survives_its_open_handles() {
+        // A rename over a file someone is reading must leave that reader on the
+        // replaced bytes; forgetting the inode outright made its next read EIO.
+        let source = include_str!("lib.rs");
+        let replaced = function_source(source, "fn remove_replaced(");
+        assert!(replaced.contains("forget_or_unlink(uid)"));
+        assert!(!replaced.contains("st.forget(uid)"));
+        assert_before(
+            replaced,
+            "if self.is_open_anywhere(uid)",
+            "self.discard_queued_ops(uid)",
+        );
+        assert_before(replaced, "if open_now", "self.cache.evict(uid)");
+        // ...but its queued ops go at once, open or not: a revision drained
+        // after the trash landed on the trashed node and kept its name taken.
+        assert_eq!(replaced.matches("self.withdraw_queued_ops(uid)").count(), 2);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_remote_read_gives_up_at_its_deadline() {
+        // The SDK bounds requests, not reads; a stalled link held one `read`
+        // for 34 minutes.
+        let remote = function_source(include_str!("reads.rs"), "fn read_range_remote(");
+        assert_before(
+            remote,
+            "let fetch = async",
+            "tokio::time::timeout(READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT, fetch)",
+        );
+        // Built inside the runtime: a FUSE worker has no reactor, and a timer
+        // built there panicked every remote read.
+        assert!(remote.contains("async { tokio::time::timeout(READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT, fetch).await }"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_deadline_built_under_block_on_needs_no_ambient_runtime() {
+        let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+            .worker_threads(1)
+            .enable_all()
+            .build()
+            .unwrap();
+        let answered = std::thread::spawn(move || {
+            rt.block_on(async { tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), async { 7 }).await })
+        })
+        .join()
+        .expect("a worker thread outside the runtime can wait on the deadline");
+        assert_eq!(answered.unwrap(), 7);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_trashed_open_node_sends_nothing_more() {
+        // Trashing a file under an open handle withdraws its queued upload at
+        // once; the bytes the handle reads go with the last close.
+        let withdraw = function_source(include_str!("lib.rs"), "fn withdraw_queued_ops(");
+        assert_before(withdraw, "self.pending_blob(uid)", "release_dropped_below");
+        assert!(!withdraw.contains("self.pending.lock().remove(uid)"));
+
+        let filesystem = include_str!("filesystem.rs");
+        let trash = function_source(filesystem, "fn trash_child(");
+        assert_eq!(
+            trash.matches("self.core.withdraw_queued_ops(&uid)").count(),
+            2
+        );
+        let release = function_source(filesystem, "fn finish_release(");
+        assert_before(
+            release,
+            "let withdrawn = self.core.pending_blob(&uid)",
+            "discard_queued_ops",
+        );
+        assert_before(release, "discard_queued_ops", "discard_staged(&blob)");
+
+        // A drain worker that claimed the op before it was withdrawn checks
+        // again before any byte leaves.
+        let drain = function_source(include_str!("drain.rs"), "pub(crate) fn drain_revision(");
+        let upload = &drain[drain.find("begin_cancellable_upload").unwrap()..];
+        assert_before(upload, "self.db.op_exists(op.id)", "File::open(&blob)");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn replacement_rename_authorizes_source_and_both_parents() {
         use std::cell::RefCell;
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/reads.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/reads.rs
index e93382f..0a3313d 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/reads.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/reads.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ pub(super) const REPAIR_MAX: u64 = 512 * 1024 * 1024;
 /// demand read in the SDK's flat block semaphore.
 pub(super) const PREFETCH_BUDGET: usize = 8;
 
+/// How long one read may wait on the network before it fails with `EIO`.
+///
+/// The SDK bounds each request, not a read: a block that times out is retried,
+/// and a read can need several blocks, a block table and a repair. On a link
+/// that stalled without dropping, one `read` held a FUSE worker for 34 minutes
+/// and the application behind it with it (`docs/BUGS.md` B107). An error the
+/// caller can retry beats a process stuck in `D` state.
+pub(super) const READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(120);
+
 /// Cap on tracked sequential streams. Only reads in progress matter, so the map
 /// is cleared wholesale rather than aged — losing the ramp costs one read.
 const MAX_PREFETCH_STREAMS: usize = 256;
@@ -939,7 +948,7 @@ impl Core {
         }
 
         if !misses.is_empty() {
-            let fetched = self.rt.block_on(async {
+            let fetch = async {
                 // Resolve the file's keys and block table once, then read every
                 // missing block through the shared reader. Previously each block
                 // called `download_range`, which redid that resolution per block.
@@ -960,7 +969,22 @@ impl Core {
                     out.push(joined.map_err(|_| Errno::EIO)??);
                 }
                 Ok::<_, Errno>(out)
-            })?;
+            };
+            // Dropping the fetch on the deadline aborts the block tasks with it;
+            // blocks that already landed stay cached for the retry. The timer is
+            // built inside the runtime: a FUSE worker has no reactor of its own,
+            // and building it out here panicked every remote read.
+            let fetched = self
+                .rt
+                .block_on(async { tokio::time::timeout(READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT, fetch).await })
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| {
+                    warn!(
+                        %uid, offset, len, secs = READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT.as_secs(),
+                        "read got no answer from the network in time; failing it"
+                    );
+                    self.evict_reader(uid);
+                    Err(Errno::EIO)
+                })?;
             for (bidx, bytes) in fetched {
                 blocks[(bidx - first) as usize] = Some(bytes);
             }
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync.rs
index cfa5193..52eef56 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ enum Applied {
     Downloaded,
     /// A conflict copy was kept.
     Conflict,
+    /// The local file to upload was deleted after the scan planned it. There is
+    /// nothing left to send, and the next pass sees the deletion (B108).
+    Vanished,
 }
 
 impl Core {
@@ -1147,13 +1150,10 @@ impl Core {
                 Ok(Applied::Dir(rel.clone(), uid))
             }
             Pending::UploadNew { rel, parent } => {
-                self.upload_new(folder_id, local_root, rel, parent).await?;
-                Ok(Applied::Uploaded)
+                self.upload_new(folder_id, local_root, rel, parent).await
             }
             Pending::UploadRevision { rel, uid } => {
-                self.upload_revision(folder_id, local_root, rel, uid)
-                    .await?;
-                Ok(Applied::Uploaded)
+                self.upload_revision(folder_id, local_root, rel, uid).await
             }
             Pending::Download {
                 rel,
@@ -1217,10 +1217,12 @@ impl Core {
         local_root: &Path,
         rel: &str,
         parent: &NodeUid,
-    ) -> Result<(), String> {
+    ) -> Result<Applied, String> {
         let path = local_root.join(rel_to_path(rel));
         let name = base_name(rel);
-        let file = std::fs::File::open(&path).map_err(|e| format!("open {rel}: {e}"))?;
+        let Some(file) = open_to_upload(&path, rel)? else {
+            return Ok(Applied::Vanished);
+        };
         let meta = file.metadata().map_err(|e| format!("stat {rel}: {e}"))?;
         let mtime = system_mtime(&meta);
         // Taken from the descriptor being streamed, so it names the content that
@@ -1261,7 +1263,8 @@ impl Core {
         self.invalidate_children_of(parent);
         warn_if_torn(rel, &path, streamed);
         self.record_file_baseline(folder_id, rel, Some(streamed), &uid)
-            .await
+            .await?;
+        Ok(Applied::Uploaded)
     }
 
     /// Upload a changed local file as a new revision of an existing remote node.
@@ -1271,9 +1274,11 @@ impl Core {
         local_root: &Path,
         rel: &str,
         uid: &NodeUid,
-    ) -> Result<(), String> {
+    ) -> Result<Applied, String> {
         let path = local_root.join(rel_to_path(rel));
-        let file = std::fs::File::open(&path).map_err(|e| format!("open {rel}: {e}"))?;
+        let Some(file) = open_to_upload(&path, rel)? else {
+            return Ok(Applied::Vanished);
+        };
         let meta = file.metadata().map_err(|e| format!("stat {rel}: {e}"))?;
         let mtime = system_mtime(&meta);
         let streamed = LocalSig::from(&meta);
@@ -1295,7 +1300,8 @@ impl Core {
             .map_err(|e| format!("upload revision {rel}: {e}"))?;
         warn_if_torn(rel, &path, streamed);
         self.record_file_baseline(folder_id, rel, Some(streamed), uid)
-            .await
+            .await?;
+        Ok(Applied::Uploaded)
     }
 
     /// Download a remote file to its local path (atomically via a temp file),
@@ -1445,6 +1451,23 @@ impl Core {
     }
 }
 
+/// Open a local file for upload, or `None` when it is gone.
+///
+/// A scan plans uploads from a listing, and the file can be deleted before its
+/// upload starts — a build or a test tree cleaned up mid-pass. That is not a
+/// failure: the next pass sees the deletion. Counting it as one put the folder
+/// in `error` for a file nobody wanted any more (B108).
+fn open_to_upload(path: &Path, rel: &str) -> Result<Option<std::fs::File>, String> {
+    match std::fs::File::open(path) {
+        Ok(file) => Ok(Some(file)),
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+            debug!(rel, "sync: file deleted before its upload; skipping");
+            Ok(None)
+        }
+        Err(e) => Err(format!("open {rel}: {e}")),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Say so when a file changed under an upload that was streaming it.
 ///
 /// Purely diagnostic — the correction is already in place, because the baseline
@@ -2239,6 +2262,27 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(remote_sig(&e), None);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_file_deleted_before_its_upload_is_skipped_not_failed() {
+        let root = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("pdfs-b108-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&root).unwrap();
+        let gone = root.join("gone.txt");
+        assert!(open_to_upload(&gone, "gone.txt").unwrap().is_none());
+
+        std::fs::write(&gone, b"x").unwrap();
+        assert!(open_to_upload(&gone, "gone.txt").unwrap().is_some());
+
+        // Other open failures still count as errors.
+        let err = open_to_upload(&gone.join("child"), "gone.txt/child");
+        assert!(err.unwrap_err().starts_with("open gone.txt/child:"));
+        let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&root);
+
+        let mut o = Outcome::default();
+        o.record(&Applied::Vanished);
+        assert!(o.is_empty());
+        assert_eq!(o.errors, 0);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn outcome_summarises_only_what_it_moved() {
         let mut o = Outcome::default();
diff --git a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync/model.rs b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync/model.rs
index 01f9df2..afb55e3 100644
--- a/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync/model.rs
+++ b/crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync/model.rs
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ impl Outcome {
             Applied::Uploaded => self.uploaded += 1,
             Applied::Downloaded => self.downloaded += 1,
             Applied::Conflict => self.conflicts += 1,
+            Applied::Vanished => {}
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/docs/BUGS.md b/docs/BUGS.md
index bd70ba9..0e45276 100644
--- a/docs/BUGS.md
+++ b/docs/BUGS.md
@@ -12,6 +12,134 @@ Conventions:
 
 ---
 
+## B108 — A file deleted during a mirror pass puts the sync folder in `error`
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-09-29, by the account run of `scripts/fuse-acceptance.sh --quick`. It stopped with
+`sync folder … entered error` before the managed-move phase. At the same time the journal
+showed `sync: step failed; continuing error=open …/workloads/tree.tar: No such file or directory`
+for eleven files. The contract suite had removed its `workloads` tree while the mirror pass
+was still uploading it.
+
+**Where:** `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/sync.rs` (`upload_new`, `upload_revision`, `open_to_upload`).
+
+**Cause.** A pass plans its uploads from a scan and runs them later. When a planned file was
+deleted in between, opening it failed with `NotFound`. That counted as a failed step, so the pass
+ended in `error` and logged "item(s) failed; will retry" for files nobody wanted any more.
+
+**Fix.** An upload whose local file is gone when it starts is skipped (`Applied::Vanished`) and
+does not count as an error. The next pass sees the deletion and handles it like any other.
+Other open failures are still errors.
+
+**Also open from the same run.** "application workloads" on My files failed with
+`database disk image is malformed` at the `SELECT` after the insert. The daemon logged nothing
+for it. The case now reports the step that failed, the database and journal files beside it,
+and which pages differ from a local replay of the same statements.
+
+## B107 — One read on a stalled connection hangs the reading program for half an hour
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-09-29, by the acceptance case "application workloads" on My files, which hit its
+180 s timeout. The journal showed `a fuse worker has held the same job for a long time
+worker=pdfs-fuse-10 job=read` from `age_secs=124` up to `age_secs=2059`. Event polls in the
+same window failed with `HTTP transport error` after 91-103 s.
+
+**Where:** `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/reads.rs` (`Core::read_range_remote`, `READ_FETCH_TIMEOUT`).
+
+**Cause.** The SDK bounds each request (30 s for the API, 300 s for a storage block) and retries
+failed ones, but nothing bounds a whole read. A read can need a block table, several blocks and a
+repair, each with its own retries. On a connection that stalled without dropping, one `read`
+held its FUSE worker for about 34 minutes, and the program that issued it could not be
+interrupted for that time.
+
+**Fix.** The network part of a read now has a 120 s deadline. When it passes, the read fails
+with `EIO`, the file's revision reader is dropped so the next read starts fresh, and blocks that
+already arrived stay cached for the retry. A single read is at most a few 4 MiB blocks, so this
+only fails a read on a link slower than about 70 KB/s. A block repair that has to download a
+large file whole can also hit the deadline on a slow link; pinning the file avoids that.
+
+The first version of this fix built the timer on the FUSE worker thread, outside the runtime.
+Every read that went to the network panicked with `there is no reactor running`, and the kernel
+got `EIO`. The next account run failed 11 cases on My files this way. The timer is now built
+inside `block_on`, and a unit test runs that pattern from a thread without a runtime.
+
+---
+
+## B106 — Saving over a file that was just read fails with "already exists"
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-09-29, by the acceptance case "application workloads" on an on-demand folder,
+after installing the B104 fix: `OSError: [Errno 5]` from `os.replace` in the editor-save loop,
+at the third save. The journal had `rename failed … AlreadyExists (http 422): A file or folder
+with name already exists` from `rename_node`.
+
+**Where:** `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs` (`Core::remove_replaced`,
+`Core::withdraw_queued_ops`), `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/filesystem.rs` (`trash_child`,
+`finish_release`), `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs` (`Core::drain_revision`).
+
+**Cause.** A regression from B104. The save loop writes a temporary file, renames it over the
+document, and reads the document back. `close()` returns before the daemon sees the release, so
+at the next save the replaced file still counts as open. B104 then left its queued upload in
+the queue until the final close, and the drain could send it after the file had been trashed.
+The next rename onto the name was refused. `unlink` of an open file had kept its queued upload
+the same way.
+
+**Fix.** A file trashed or replaced while open now loses its queued ops at once, and an upload
+already under way is cancelled. Only the staged bytes stay, because the open handle reads them,
+and they are deleted at the final close. A drain worker that claimed the op before it was
+withdrawn checks that the op still exists before it sends any bytes.
+
+---
+
+## B105 — A file deleted while its upload is in flight comes back as a conflict copy
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-09-29, in the daemon journal of an acceptance run on the account. During the
+SQLite workload two `queued write conflicts; keeping a conflict copy` warnings named files called
+`recovered-XrPUSW5W` and `recovered-JbZM_pWK`, with the reason `the file was trashed remotely`.
+Each was followed by `pending upload failed; will retry` and `No such file or directory`.
+
+**Where:** `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs` (`Core::drain_revision`),
+`crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs` (`Db::op_exists`).
+
+**Cause.** SQLite writes, syncs and deletes its journal file within milliseconds. The sync
+queues an upload of the journal. The delete trashes the node and drops that queued upload, but a
+drain worker that already holds the op carries on. It then asks the server about the node,
+finds it trashed, and treats the trash as another device's change: it tries to upload the bytes
+as a conflict copy. The tree has already forgotten the node, so the copy is named `recovered-…`
+and placed in the Drive root. Here the blob was already gone and the attempt failed, but with
+the blob still on disk the copy would land.
+
+**Fix.** Before keeping a conflict copy, the drain checks that its op is still queued. When the
+op is gone, the write was withdrawn by the delete, or superseded, while the worker held it, and
+it is dropped.
+
+---
+
+## B104 — Reading a file that was replaced by a rename fails with `EIO`
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-09-29, by the acceptance case "rename patterns" on My files and on an on-demand
+folder: `OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error` at
+`os.pread(reader, 64, 0)` after `os.replace(replacement, target)` with `reader` open on `target`.
+The mirror folder, a local disk, passed.
+
+**Where:** `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/lib.rs` (`Core::remove_replaced`).
+
+**Cause.** A rename over an existing file first trashes that file, because Drive has no atomic
+replace. That step forgot the replaced inode outright and evicted its cache and reader, even
+when a handle was still open on it. The next read through that handle found no inode and
+failed. `rename(2)`, like `unlink(2)`, keeps a replaced file readable through the handles
+already open on it. The unlink path (`trash_child`) already did this, but the rename path
+did not.
+
+**Fix.** `remove_replaced` now handles an open victim as `unlink` does. It keeps the inode as
+an unlinked entry, and leaves its cache and reader to the final close. That applies both to a
+node the server knows and to one whose create is still queued. Its queued ops at first also
+waited for the final close; B106 moved them back to the trash.
+
+---
+
 ## B103 — One stuck trash refresh freezes the trash listing until the daemon restarts
 
 **Status:** Fixed (unverified). The hang itself has not been reproduced on purpose.
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 08cd8ce..9b01999 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@ scratch (user data in `staging/` and `recovery/` is never touched by this).
 - **Removing a folder also cancels the pending uploads of the files inside it.** Before, an
   edit that had not reached Drive yet kept retrying against the trash forever and kept its
   staged copy on disk. `pdfs rm` now also drops what was queued for what it removes (B102).
+- **A program reading a file keeps its data when another program replaces the file.** Saving
+  over a file by renaming a new copy onto it (what most editors and `os.replace` do) made
+  reads through handles already open on the old file fail with `Input/output error` (B104).
+- **Short-lived files no longer come back as conflict copies.** A file deleted right after it
+  was written, such as a SQLite journal, could be uploaded as a `recovered-…` conflict copy in
+  the Drive root (B105).
+- **Editors can save over a file several times in a row.** The fix for B104 could leave the
+  upload of a replaced file queued, and the next save onto the same name failed with
+  `Input/output error` (B106).
+- **Deleting files during a mirror pass no longer marks the folder as failed.** A file removed
+  after the pass planned its upload was counted as an error, so the folder showed `error` until
+  a later pass (B108).
+- **A read no longer hangs when the connection stalls.** A read that gets no answer from Drive
+  within two minutes now fails with `Input/output error` instead of blocking the program for
+  as long as half an hour (B107).
 - **The trash no longer freezes after a server call hangs.** Until the daemon restarted, the
   trash kept showing the same entries, and a folder just deleted could not be found there to
   delete permanently (B103).
diff --git a/scripts/fuse-acceptance.py b/scripts/fuse-acceptance.py
index 2de3c6d..93654b0 100755
--- a/scripts/fuse-acceptance.py
+++ b/scripts/fuse-acceptance.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import sys
 import tarfile
 import tempfile
 import time
+import traceback
 import uuid
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ElementTree
 
@@ -117,6 +118,26 @@ def check(condition: bool, message: str) -> None:
         raise AssertionError(message)
 
 
+def failure_detail(error: BaseException) -> str:
+    """The error, and for anything but a failed check the script line that hit it.
+
+    A bare `OSError: [Errno 5]` from a case with forty filesystem calls says
+    nothing about which one the mount refused.
+    """
+    detail = f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"
+    if isinstance(error, AssertionError):
+        return detail
+    frames = [
+        frame
+        for frame in traceback.extract_tb(error.__traceback__)
+        if frame.filename == __file__ and frame.name not in {"check", "run"}
+    ]
+    if frames:
+        frame = frames[-1]
+        detail += f" (at {frame.name}:{frame.lineno}: {frame.line})"
+    return detail
+
+
 def expect_errno(expected: set[int], operation, description: str) -> None:
     try:
         operation()
@@ -907,6 +928,59 @@ def test_concurrency(ctx: Context) -> None:
     ctx.record("shared.digest", hashlib.sha256(read(shared)).hexdigest())
 
 
+def _sqlite_create(connection: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
+    connection.execute("CREATE TABLE rows (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, value TEXT)")
+
+
+def _sqlite_insert(connection: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
+    with connection:
+        connection.executemany(
+            "INSERT INTO rows (value) VALUES (?)", [(f"row-{index}",) for index in range(500)]
+        )
+
+
+def _sqlite_diagnosis(database: Path) -> str:
+    """What a malformed database on the mount looks like next to a local replay.
+
+    The same statements from the same library write the same bytes, so the
+    pages that differ, and whether a stray journal sat next to the file, say
+    whether the mount lost a write, served a stale read or let a rollback in.
+    """
+    notes = []
+    try:
+        entries = sorted(
+            f"{entry.name}={entry.stat(follow_symlinks=False).st_size}"
+            for entry in os.scandir(database.parent)
+            if entry.name.startswith(database.name)
+        )
+        notes.append(f"files [{', '.join(entries)}]")
+    except OSError as error:
+        notes.append(f"listing failed: {error}")
+    try:
+        actual = database.read_bytes()
+    except OSError as error:
+        return "; ".join(notes + [f"reading the database failed: {error}"])
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="pdfs-sqlite-reference-") as scratch:
+        reference_path = Path(scratch) / database.name
+        reference = sqlite3.connect(reference_path)
+        try:
+            _sqlite_create(reference)
+            _sqlite_insert(reference)
+        finally:
+            reference.close()
+        expected = reference_path.read_bytes()
+    page = int.from_bytes(expected[16:18], "big") or 65536
+    notes.append(f"size {len(actual)} vs reference {len(expected)}")
+    differing = []
+    for offset in range(0, max(len(actual), len(expected)), page):
+        ours, theirs = actual[offset : offset + page], expected[offset : offset + page]
+        if ours != theirs:
+            kind = "zeros" if ours.strip(b"\0") == b"" else "differs"
+            differing.append(f"{offset // page + 1}:{kind}")
+    notes.append(f"pages differing [{', '.join(differing[:16]) or 'none'}]")
+    return "; ".join(notes)
+
+
 def test_application_workloads(ctx: Context) -> None:
     """Real tools, because they combine syscalls in ways a matrix will not.
 
@@ -954,14 +1028,20 @@ def test_application_workloads(ctx: Context) -> None:
     # sqlite exercises locking, journal creation and unlink, and fsync ordering.
     database = workloads / "workload.db"
     connection = sqlite3.connect(database)
+    step = "open"
     try:
-        connection.execute("CREATE TABLE rows (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, value TEXT)")
-        with connection:
-            connection.executemany(
-                "INSERT INTO rows (value) VALUES (?)", [(f"row-{index}",) for index in range(500)]
-            )
+        step = "create table"
+        _sqlite_create(connection)
+        step = "insert"
+        _sqlite_insert(connection)
+        step = "checkpoint"
         connection.execute("PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE)")
+        step = "count"
         count = connection.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM rows").fetchone()[0]
+    except sqlite3.DatabaseError as error:
+        raise AssertionError(
+            f"sqlite failed at {step}: {error}; {_sqlite_diagnosis(database)}"
+        ) from error
     finally:
         connection.close()
     check(count == 500, f"sqlite lost rows: {count}")
@@ -1972,7 +2052,7 @@ def run_contract(
                 raise
             except BaseException as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - reported, then continued
                 elapsed = time.monotonic() - started
-                detail = f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"
+                detail = failure_detail(error)
                 print(f"    FAIL  {detail}")
                 run.results.append(Result(case.name, label, "fail", elapsed, detail))
                 if fail_fast:
@@ -2148,6 +2228,32 @@ class JournalWatch:
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
+# Queue ops that were already there when the run started, by id. They belong
+# to the user, or to an earlier run that died, and may never drain: a run that
+# waited for an empty queue would time out on every sync case. Waits skip them.
+PREEXISTING_OPS: set[int] = set()
+
+
+def remember_preexisting_ops(queue: list[dict]) -> None:
+    if PREEXISTING_OPS:
+        return
+    PREEXISTING_OPS.update(item["id"] for item in queue)
+    for item in queue:
+        print(
+            f"NOTE: queued {item['kind']} #{item['id']} for {item['path']} predates this run; "
+            "queue waits ignore it"
+        )
+
+
+def queue_settled(mount: dict, queue) -> bool:
+    """Whether everything this run queued has drained. `queue` lists the ops."""
+    if mount.get("pending_uploads", 0) == 0 and mount.get("pending_changes", 0) == 0:
+        return True
+    if not PREEXISTING_OPS:
+        return False
+    return all(item["id"] in PREEXISTING_OPS for item in queue())
+
+
 class Daemon:
     """The `pdfs` CLI, plus the unit control the durability drill needs."""
 
@@ -2166,6 +2272,8 @@ class Daemon:
             daemon.status()
         except Exception:
             return None
+        with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+            remember_preexisting_ops(daemon.queue())
         return daemon
 
     def command(self, *args: str, json_output: bool = False, stdin: str | None = None) -> str:
@@ -2194,7 +2302,7 @@ class Daemon:
         last = None
         while time.monotonic() < deadline:
             last = self.status().get("mount") or {}
-            if last.get("pending_uploads", 0) == 0 and last.get("pending_changes", 0) == 0:
+            if queue_settled(last, self.queue):
                 return
             time.sleep(1)
         raise TimeoutError(f"daemon mutation queue did not drain: {last}")
@@ -2472,7 +2580,17 @@ class Janitor:
         uid cannot. The node has to show up in the trash first, which is also
         what proves the trash step before it worked, and it has to be gone from
         a fresh listing afterwards.
+
+        The server's own answer comes first, though: it only deletes a node
+        that is in the trash, and it answers per uid. A listing is a whole-trash
+        enumeration, which on a large trash can time out on every attempt and
+        would otherwise keep a folder the server would delete on request.
         """
+        with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
+            reply = self.daemon.command("delete-forever", uid, stdin="yes\n")
+            if re.search(r"\bpermanently deleted 1 item", reply):
+                print(f"[cleanup] permanently deleted {name}")
+                return True
         deadline = time.monotonic() + self.daemon.timeout
         attempted = False
         last_error = ""
@@ -2645,7 +2763,10 @@ class ManagedSyncPair:
         while time.monotonic() < deadline:
             value = json.loads(self.command("status", json_output=True))
             last = value.get("mount") or {}
-            if last.get("pending_uploads", 0) == 0 and last.get("pending_changes", 0) == 0:
+            if queue_settled(
+                last,
+                lambda: json.loads(self.command("sync", "queue", json_output=True))["items"],
+            ):
                 return
             time.sleep(1)
         raise TimeoutError(f"daemon mutation queue did not drain: {last}")
@@ -3158,7 +3279,7 @@ def run_move_contract(
             except KeyboardInterrupt:
                 raise
             except BaseException as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - reported, then continued
-                detail = f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"
+                detail = failure_detail(error)
                 print(f"    FAIL  {detail}")
                 run.results.append(Result(case.name, label, "fail", time.monotonic() - started, detail))
                 if fail_fast: