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Compactor Documentation too Sparse #6030

Open mkieweg opened 1 week ago

mkieweg commented 1 week ago

The documentation on how compactions work, and especially the behavior of Thanos's compactor when new blocks arrive mid-compaction, could be improved. Basically what's been discussed here.

I'm happy to take this on

mkieweg commented 1 week ago

Thanks for assigning this to me @friedrichg, I'll get on with it as soon as it's been clarified in the Slack thread if my understanding of the flow is correct