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WiredTiger fragments: declared maps and image scanning

Read mapped fragments or search an image for complete blocks. A discovered block still needs to be matched to its collection.

Zhang Chen2026-10-041 min read—

WiredTiger fragments: declared maps and image scanning

L2 reads image data through engineer-declared logical extents and can assemble pages across fragments. Holes remain missing rather than being replaced with zero-filled bytes presented as real source data.

L3 finds complete blocks within a bounded image range. Plaintext deep-fragment scanning separately retains BSON document candidates, fields and suspected structures. Multi-source cases freeze configurations and retain results independently without automatic collection attribution or business-record merging.

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