Github user kxepal commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/161#issuecomment-207623948
@rnewson Just curious: what the idea stands behind "truncate by few MiBs
toward 0 and then delete" and why it's better than "rename and full delete"?
The latter sounds to be use less disk I/O operations and be better.
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