Question about Scavenge

EventStoreDB
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Hi team:

We have a requirement to scavenge events in Pro env and there are about 800 chunks on the server disk and there are some questions need to confirm with you:

  1. Any risks if we execute scavenge? Could the client read/write events normally when the scavenge running?

  2. Is there any better solution to execute scavenge without any downtime for the user?

Thanks

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Scavenge is an online operation, so it is safe to continue reading and writing events while it is running.

A bit more of a detailed explanation about scavenging and what it does can be found in the docs.