stageDirectory and countStageableFiles already skip them, but
stageOptionDir did not - and it is the path sherpa-onnx voices take for
espeak-ng-data. The receiver writes "<file>.sha256" for every file it
accepts, so staging the sidecars made it write sidecars for those in
turn, one level deeper on every load.
Observed on a live node: "<file>.sha256" repeated eleven times, 5077
junk files out of 7832 in the models dir, and still growing. Staging
never finished, so vits-piper-it_IT-paola-sherpa stayed permanently
"staging on node" and every realtime warmup needing that voice failed
with the session then going silent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0142UfUh8HWxdim5JZqf8Tr6
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
