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Interesting! Did not know that. Any idea how replica sets / shards might fit into this picture?

• rb2k_ 16y ago
  It would help keeping the index size down (well... distribute it at least) and a lock on a shard will not influence the other shards. I asked a few months back if I could just run several shards on a single machine and keep the locked area smaller that way, but the general consensus was that it wasn't a good idea because of the overhead. Other than that, the lock is still there...