- Sync() now flushes BlockWriter before fd.Sync() for durability
- Pre-validate encoding before sequence allocation (design doc compliance)
- Remove dead _ = rec assignment in recover.go
- Remove unused maxPayload field from SegmentWriter
- Handle Put error in MemTable.Publish with panic on invariant violation
- wal/block_writer.go: 32KB block buffer with padding and flush
- wal/segment_writer.go: WAL segment file with durable-ready protocol
- memtable/memtable.go: Arena+SkipList wrapper with publish/abort semantics
- Comprehensive tests for all modules, all pass with -race