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by rbranson 5333 days ago
Just to be 100% clear -- so people don't misunderstand your explanation of Mongo's compaction: Mongo does have a free space map that it uses to attempt to fit new data or resized documents into "holes" left by deleted data. However, compaction will still eventually have to be ran as the data will continue to fragment and eventually things get bad.