"clebert.suconic(a)jboss.com" wrote : | You might say we would have an issue with Ordering... but compacting the way you said would be the same thing.. since the file would get a new ID and be on the top of the list. But compacting could give you the same issue since the new file receiving the compacting would get a newID. | Compacting as I envision it would not change the order of any records, it simply removes dead records and pushes them all up to remove the dead space. No ordering changes occur. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4237090#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...