// Advance the fake timestamp so that "a" becomes stale via its first block.
  env->SetNowSeconds(now + 2);
  // The pruning thread periodically compares env->NowSeconds() with the oldest
  // block's timestamp to see if it should evict any files. At the current fake
  // timestamp of `now` + 2, file "a" is stale because its first block is stale,
  // but file "b" is not stale yet. Thus, once the pruning thread wakes up (in

  absl::MutexLock lock(&mu_);
  auto entry = block_map_.find(key);
  if (entry != block_map_.end()) {
    if (BlockNotStale(entry->second)) {
      return entry->second;
    } else {
      // Remove the stale block and continue.
      RemoveFile_Locked(key.first);
    }
  }

  // Insert a new empty block, setting the bookkeeping to sentinel values
  // in order to update them as appropriate.