A partner's conf is in the RAM cache, not CONF_DIR, and a commented-out template entry is not configuration

Plugin/unraid/include/config.php

@@ -643,6 +643,30 @@ function vv_read_conf_raw(string $filename): string {
     return file_exists($path) ? file_get_contents($path) : '';
 }
 
+
+// Read one HOST's conf, wherever that host's conf actually lives for this reader.
+//
+// Sparse checkout means a host only ever checks out its OWN host*.conf, so on HOST1 the file
+// Configurations/host2.conf does not exist and never will. vv_read_conf_raw() looks only in
+// CONF_DIR, so every caller that passed it a partner's slot silently got an empty string — and
+// an empty conf parses into empty arrays, which render as "none". The Watchdog tab showed the
+// partner's memory limits, required list, pause list, stop list and scan-ignore list as five
+// empty sections, and the Fallback tab reported the partner's tiers as unconfigured, on a mesh
+// where conf_sync had been delivering all of it into the RAM cache the whole time.
+//
+// Partner confs are pulled into VV_CONF_RAM_CACHE_DIR by System_Essentials/conf_sync.sh. Disk
+// first for this host, RAM cache for anyone else; the disk copy is never preferred for a
+// partner, because a stale Configurations/host2.conf left behind by an old install is exactly
+// the file that must not win. An absent cache returns empty, same as before.
+function vv_read_host_conf_raw(string $slot): string {
+    $slot = strtolower($slot);
+    if ($slot === vv_detect_host()) return vv_read_conf_raw($slot . '.conf');
+
+    $cached = rtrim(VV_CONF_RAM_CACHE_DIR, '/') . '/' . $slot . '.conf';
+    if (is_readable($cached)) return (string)@file_get_contents($cached);
+
+    return '';
+}
 function vv_write_conf_raw(string $filename, string $content): bool {
     $path = CONF_DIR . '/' . $filename;
     $tmp  = $path . '.vv.tmp';