diff --git a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
index 0cb73f73b7..3016a14ec9 100644
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
             let empty = Vec::new();
             let prefixes = response.common_prefixes.as_ref().unwrap_or(&empty);
 
-            tracing::info!("list: {} prefixes, {} keys", prefixes.len(), keys.len());
+            tracing::debug!("list: {} prefixes, {} keys", prefixes.len(), keys.len());
 
             for object in keys {
                 let object_path = object.key().expect("response does not contain a key");
diff --git a/libs/utils/src/generation.rs b/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
index 49e290dab8..46eadee1da 100644
--- a/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/generation.rs
@@ -152,3 +152,16 @@ impl Debug for Generation {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn generation_gt() {
+        // Important that a None generation compares less than a valid one, during upgrades from
+        // pre-generation systems.
+        assert!(Generation::none() < Generation::new(0));
+        assert!(Generation::none() < Generation::new(1));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs
index 3b5fe4b207..deb5ea84a8 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ pub(super) async fn download_index_part(
         None => {
             // Migration from legacy pre-generation state: we have a generation but no prior
             // attached pageservers did.  Try to load from a no-generation path.
-            tracing::info!("No index_part.json* found");
+            tracing::debug!("No index_part.json* found");
             do_download_index_part(
                 storage,
                 tenant_shard_id,