Worker nodes slowly fill their disks until DiskPressure appears. How does the kubelet decide what to clean up?

Two cleanup mechanisms hide behind one taint: image garbage collection removes unreferenced images by LRU at threshold crossings, while eviction kills pods. Candidates who conflate them fail this question quietly.

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