diff --git a/ARCHITECTURE.md b/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 2a11f60c..cb57ce48 100644
--- a/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ HTTP REST API for orchestrators (scale-to-zero, live migration). (`api.rs`)
 | `/api/exports/{name}/snapshots/{seq}` | `DELETE` | Delete a specific snapshot (idempotent) |
 | `/api/exports/{name}/tag` | `POST` | Publish current manifest under a named alias without re-flushing. Body: `{"tag":"name"}`. |
 | `/api/manifests/{s3_prefix}/{name}` | `HEAD` | Check manifest existence (200/404). No data transfer, no running export required. |
+| (fence on a fork) | | A fork copies its source's manifest, but a fork into a **new** name starts unfenced: `create_export` clears `generation` and `lease_revision` when the source manifest name differs from the new name, so the caller's own token stamps it at attach and a child placed below its source's generation is granted. A fork into the **same** name (a parked volume reconstituted from its own manifest) keeps the stamp, and a lower token is still refused (409). |
 | `/api/exports/{name}/drain` | `POST` | Flush all dirty blocks to S3 (no versioned snapshot). Returns **409 Conflict** (`superseded: …`) when a newer fence token owns the volume (an evacuated source, a partitioned predecessor): nothing is written and nothing is retried; release the export with a retaining `DELETE` (no `?purge`), which abandons its teardown drain instead of retrying it. |
 | `/api/exports/{name}/promote` | `POST` | Toggle readonly → read-write |
 | `/api/exports/{name}/promote-base` | `POST` | Publish a snapshot's manifest under `bases/{base_name}` (no data re-upload) and register it in the image index. Body: `{"base_name":"...","sequence":N}`. Idempotent; the promoted base is forkable (`from: "image:<base_name>"`) and profileable like a blessed one. |
diff --git a/glidefs/src/block/api.rs b/glidefs/src/block/api.rs
index 5485abc4..4956930c 100644
--- a/glidefs/src/block/api.rs
+++ b/glidefs/src/block/api.rs
@@ -3031,6 +3031,85 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(body_json(resp).await["s3_prefix"], "source");
     }
 
+    /// A fork into a NEW name has no prior owner: it must not inherit its source's fence stamp, or a child whose placement
+    /// generation is below the source's is refused (409) on the attach of a volume nobody else can hold.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn test_fork_into_a_new_name_starts_unfenced() {
+        let temp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let router = create_test_router(&temp).await;
+        // The source is owned at (5, 2).
+        let resp = request(
+            &router,
+            Method::PUT,
+            "/api/exports/source",
+            Some(r#"{"size_gb": 0.01, "generation": 5, "lease_revision": 2}"#),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CREATED);
+        let resp = request(&router, Method::POST, "/api/exports/source/snapshot", None).await;
+        let id = body_json(resp).await["snapshot_id"].as_str().unwrap().to_string();
+
+        // A child at generation 1 forks it: granted, and owned at its own token, not the source's.
+        let body = format!(r#"{{"size_gb": 0.01, "from": "snapshot:{id}", "generation": 1, "lease_revision": 1}}"#);
+        let resp = request(&router, Method::PUT, "/api/exports/child", Some(&body)).await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CREATED, "a fork into a new name is not fenced by its source's stamp");
+        let info = body_json(request(&router, Method::GET, "/api/exports/child", None).await).await;
+        assert_eq!(info["generation"], 1);
+        assert_eq!(info["lease_revision"], 1);
+
+        // A fork with no token at all starts unstamped (granted against (0,0)).
+        let body = format!(r#"{{"size_gb": 0.01, "from": "snapshot:{id}"}}"#);
+        let resp = request(&router, Method::PUT, "/api/exports/child2", Some(&body)).await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CREATED);
+
+        // The source itself is untouched: a lower token is still refused there.
+        let resp = request(
+            &router,
+            Method::PUT,
+            "/api/exports/source",
+            Some(r#"{"size_gb": 0.01, "generation": 1}"#),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CONFLICT, "the source keeps its own fence");
+    }
+
+    /// A reconstitute into the SAME name (instd's purge re-attaches a parked volume from its own manifest) keeps the stamp:
+    /// the volume has an owner, and a lower token must still be refused.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn test_same_name_reconstitute_keeps_the_stamp() {
+        let temp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let router = create_test_router(&temp).await;
+        let resp = request(
+            &router,
+            Method::PUT,
+            "/api/exports/vol1",
+            Some(r#"{"size_gb": 0.01, "generation": 5}"#),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CREATED);
+        // Park it: the export goes, the manifest stays, stamped.
+        let resp = request(&router, Method::DELETE, "/api/exports/vol1", None).await;
+        assert!(resp.status().is_success());
+        // Reconstitute it from its own manifest at a lower generation: refused.
+        let resp = request(
+            &router,
+            Method::PUT,
+            "/api/exports/vol1",
+            Some(r#"{"size_gb": 0.01, "from": "volume:vol1", "generation": 3}"#),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CONFLICT, "a same-name fork keeps the stamp, so the lower token is fenced");
+        // At the owning generation it is granted.
+        let resp = request(
+            &router,
+            Method::PUT,
+            "/api/exports/vol1",
+            Some(r#"{"size_gb": 0.01, "from": "volume:vol1", "generation": 5}"#),
+        )
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), StatusCode::CREATED);
+    }
+
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn test_api_fork_from_image() {
         let temp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
diff --git a/glidefs/src/block/router.rs b/glidefs/src/block/router.rs
index 33aa4b72..ab99ee20 100644
--- a/glidefs/src/block/router.rs
+++ b/glidefs/src/block/router.rs
@@ -1750,6 +1750,15 @@ impl ExportRouter {
 
             let mut vm = fork_vm;
             vm.size = device_size;
+            // A fork into a NEW name has no prior owner: the single-attach fence guards a name against two holders, and this
+            // name has none yet. Left on the copy, the SOURCE's stamp would refuse a child placed below the source's
+            // generation or lease (409) on a volume nobody else can hold. The caller's own token stamps it at attach
+            // (`enforce_attach_fence`). A fork into the SAME name (a parked volume reconstituted from its own manifest) keeps
+            // the stamp: that name has an owner, and a lower token must still be refused.
+            if manifest_name != name {
+                vm.generation = 0;
+                vm.lease_revision = 0;
+            }
 
             // Store the volume manifest for this export
             let volume_manifest = Arc::new(parking_lot::RwLock::new(vm));