Make it possible to enable periodic compactions for BlobDB #6172
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Summary:
Periodic compactions ensure that even SSTs that do not get picked up
otherwise eventually go through compaction; used in conjunction with
BlobDB's garbage collection, they enable BlobDB to reclaim space when
old blob files are used by such straggling SSTs.
Test Plan:
Ran
make check
and used the BlobDB mode ofdb_bench
.