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Jukka Zitting commented on OAK-1804:
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I'd rather not do such bulk clearing of old checkpoints. There might be a valid
use case for removing selected checkpoints (like an old backup that's no longer
needed), but simply dropping all checkpoints older than a given timestamp seems
like too blunt a tool to me.
> TarMK compaction
> ----------------
>
> Key: OAK-1804
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-1804
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: segmentmk
> Reporter: Jukka Zitting
> Assignee: Alex Parvulescu
> Labels: production, tools
> Fix For: 1.0.1, 1.1
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> Attachments: SegmentNodeStore.java.patch, compaction.patch
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> The TarMK would benefit from periodic "compact" operations that would
> traverse and recreate (parts of) the content tree in order to optimize the
> storage layout. More specifically, such compaction would:
> * Optimize performance by increasing locality and reducing duplication, both
> of which improve the effectiveness of caching.
> * Allow the garbage collector to release more unused disk space by removing
> references to segments where only a subset of content is reachable.
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