Compactor Documentation too Sparse

[mkieweg]

The documentation on how compactions work, and especially the behavior of Thanos's compactor when new blocks arrive mid-compaction, could be improved. Basically what's been discussed here.

I'm happy to take this on

[mkieweg]

Thanks for assigning this to me @friedrichg, I'll get on with it as soon as it's been clarified in the Slack thread if my understanding of the flow is correct

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