Status: OUT
Compaction is the highest-risk operation yet operates within a durability pipeline broken at both ends: crash-unsafe compaction can permanently lose data or resurrect deletes, AND the surrounding infrastructure has fsync gaps (data may never reach disk) and unrecoverable integrity checks (corruption detected but not repaired) — the most dangerous operation has the least protection.
Critical data lifecycle hazard compounded by broken surrounding durability infrastructure
Depends on (SL): compaction-is-critical-data-lifecycle-hazard, durability-pipeline-broken-at-both-ends