DOCS-4429 --noprealloc is deprecated #2068
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| On Unix-like systems, :program:`mongod` preallocates an additional data file and | ||
| initializes the disk space to ``0``. Preallocating data files in | ||
| the background prevents significant delays when a new database file | ||
| is next allocated. |
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Why are we removing also this part of the doc?
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See DOCS-4429. mongod as of 2.6 no longer preallocates data files.
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OK sorry. I thought the it wasn't possible to disable pre-allocation on 2.6. Basically pre-allocation was always enabled in 2.6
(too many negatives) :)
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DOCS-4429 --noprealloc is deprecated
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First attempt at resolving DOCS-4429.