diff --git a/commit.js b/commit.js
index 6e3bcf6d..998e1f99 100644
--- a/commit.js
+++ b/commit.js
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class Commit {
         this._commit = path.join(journalist.directory, 'commit')
     }
 
+    // TODO Should be a hash of specific files to filter, not a regex.
     async write (commit) {
         const dir = await this._readdir()
         const unemplaced = dir.filter(file => ! /\d+\.\d+-\d+\.\d+\.[0-9a-f]/)
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ class Commit {
         const buffer = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(entry.value.items))
         const hash = fnv(buffer)
         entry.heft = buffer.length
+        // TODO `this._path()`
         await fs.writeFile(path.join(this._commit, `${entry.value.id}-${hash}`), buffer)
         const from = path.join('commit', `${entry.value.id}-${hash}`)
         const to = path.join('pages', entry.value.id, hash)
@@ -136,6 +138,51 @@ class Commit {
         }
     }
 
+    async _vacuum (id, first, second, items) {
+        await fs.mkdir(this._commit, { recursive: true })
+        const filename = this._path(`${id}-${first}`)
+        const recorder = this._journalist._recorder
+        // Write out a new page slowly, a record at a time.
+        for (let index = 0, I = items.length; index < I; index++) {
+            const { key, body } = items[index]
+            await fs.appendFile(filename, recorder({ method: 'insert', index, key }, body))
+        }
+        await fs.appendFile(filename, recorder({
+            method: 'dependent', id: id, append: second
+        }))
+        return {
+            method: 'rename',
+            from: path.join('commit', `${id}-${first}`),
+            to: path.join('pages', id, first),
+            hash: hash
+        }
+    }
+
+    async vacuum (id, first, second, items, right) {
+        await fs.mkdir(this._commit, { recursive: true })
+        const filename = this._path(`${id}-${first}`)
+        const recorder = this._journalist._recorder
+        const buffers = []
+        buffers.push(recorder({ method: 'right', right }))
+        // Write out a new page slowly, a record at a time.
+        for (let index = 0, I = items.length; index < I; index++) {
+            const { key, value } = items[index]
+            buffers.push(recorder({ method: 'insert', index, key }, value))
+        }
+        buffers.push(recorder({
+            method: 'dependent', id: id, append: second
+        }))
+        const buffer = Buffer.concat(buffers)
+        const hash = fnv(buffer)
+        await fs.writeFile(filename, buffer)
+        return {
+            method: 'rename',
+            from: path.join('commit', `${id}-${first}`),
+            to: path.join('pages', id, first),
+            hash: hash
+        }
+    }
+
     // Okay. Now I see. I wanted the commit to be light and easy and minimal, so
     // that it could be written quickly and loaded quickly, but that is only
     // necessary for the leaf. We really want a `Prepare` that will write files
@@ -186,6 +233,11 @@ class Commit {
                     await this._prepare([ 'rename', from, to, hash ])
                 }
                 break
+            case 'rename': {
+                    const { from, to, hash } = operation
+                    await this._prepare([ 'rename', from, to, hash ])
+                }
+                break
             case 'emplace': {
                     const { page, hash } = operation
                     const from = path.join('commit', `${page.id}-${hash}`)
diff --git a/journalist.js b/journalist.js
index bd81b5c0..6eae8039 100644
--- a/journalist.js
+++ b/journalist.js
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ const Future = require('prospective/future')
 const Commit = require('./commit')
 const fnv = require('./fnv')
 
+const Keyify = require('keyify')
+
 const Turnstile = require('turnstile')
 Turnstile.Queue = require('turnstile/queue')
 Turnstile.Set = require('turnstile/set')
@@ -34,6 +36,42 @@ function increment (value) {
     return value + 1 & 0xffffffff
 }
 
+function keyify ({ id, append }, override = null) {
+    return Keyify.stringify({ id, append: override || append })
+}
+
+function reference ({ id, append }, override = null) {
+    return { id, append: override || append }
+}
+
+class Page {
+    constructor (dependents) {
+        this._dependents = dependents
+    }
+
+    add ({ id, append }, override = null) {
+        this._dependents[`${id}/${override || append}`] = true
+    }
+}
+
+class Dependencies {
+    constructor (dependencies) {
+        this._dependencies = dependencies
+    }
+
+    page ({ id, append }, override = null) {
+        const key = `${id}/${override || append}`
+        if (!(key in this._dependencies)) {
+            this._dependencies[key] = {}
+        }
+        return new Page(this._dependencies[key])
+    }
+
+    merge (dependencies) {
+        this._dependencies = { ...this._dependencies, ...dependencies }
+    }
+}
+
 class Journalist {
     constructor (destructible, options) {
         const leaf = coalesece(options.leaf, {})
@@ -113,8 +151,20 @@ class Journalist {
 
     async _read (id, append) {
         const page = {
-            id, leaf: true, items: [], deleted: false, lock: null, right: null, ghosts: 0, append
+            id,
+            leaf: true,
+            items: [],
+            dependencies: {},
+            deletes: 0,
+            // TODO Rename merged.
+            deleted: false,
+            lock: null,
+            right: null,
+            ghosts: 0,
+            append
         }
+        const dependencies = new Dependencies(page.dependencies)
+        dependencies.page({ id, append })
         const player = new Player(function () { return '0' })
         const readable = fileSystem.createReadStream(this._path('pages', id, append))
         for await (let chunk of readable) {
@@ -125,9 +175,12 @@ class Journalist {
                     }
                     break
                 case 'load': {
-                        const { page: loaded } = await this._read(entry.header.id, entry.header.append)
+                        const { id, append } = entry.header
+                        const { page: loaded } = await this._read(id, append)
                         page.items = loaded.items
                         page.right = loaded.right
+                        dependencies.merge(loaded.dependencies)
+                        // TODO Put an error here and there is no abend.
                     }
                     break
                 case 'slice': {
@@ -140,6 +193,7 @@ class Journalist {
                 case 'merge': {
                         const { page: right } = await this._read(entry.header.id, entry.header.append)
                         page.items.push.apply(page.items, right.items.slice(right.ghosts))
+                        dependencies.merge(right.dependencies)
                     }
                     break
                 case 'insert': {
@@ -152,6 +206,12 @@ class Journalist {
                     break
                 case 'delete': {
                         page.items.splice(entry.header.index, 1)
+                        page.deletes++
+                    }
+                    break
+                case 'dependent': {
+                        const { id, append } = entry.header
+                        dependencies.page({ id, append }).add(entry.header)
                     }
                     break
                 }
@@ -336,6 +396,7 @@ class Journalist {
         const entry = this._hold(id)
         const buffers = writes.map(write => {
             const buffer = recorder(write.header, write.body)
+            // TODO Where is heft removal?
             if (write.header.method == 'insert') {
                 entry.heft += (write.record.heft = buffer.length)
             }
@@ -454,6 +515,135 @@ class Journalist {
         return `${this.instance}.${this._id++}`
     }
 
+    async _vacuum (key) {
+        const entries = []
+        const leaf = await this.descend({ key })
+
+        const blockId = this._blockId = increment(this._blockId)
+        const block = this._block(blockId, leaf.entry.value.id)
+        await block.enter.promise
+
+        const items = leaf.entry.value.items.slice(0)
+
+        const first = this._filename()
+        const second = this._filename()
+
+        await (async () => {
+            // Flush any existing writes. We're still write blocked.
+            const writes = this._queue(leaf.entry.value.id).writes.splice(0)
+            await this._writeLeaf(leaf.entry.value.id, writes)
+
+            // Create our journaled tree alterations.
+            const prepare = []
+
+            // Create a stub that loads the existing page.
+            const previous = leaf.entry.value.append
+            prepare.push({
+                method: 'stub',
+                page: { id: leaf.entry.value.id, append: first },
+                records: [{
+                    method: 'load',
+                    id: leaf.entry.value.id,
+                    append: previous
+                }, {
+                    method: 'dependent',
+                    id: leaf.entry.value.id,
+                    append: second
+                }]
+            }, {
+                method: 'stub',
+                page: { id: leaf.entry.value.id, append: second },
+                records: [{
+                    method: 'load',
+                    id: leaf.entry.value.id,
+                    append: first
+                }]
+            })
+            leaf.entry.value.append = second
+
+            const commit = new Commit(this)
+            await commit.write(prepare)
+            await commit.prepare()
+            await commit.commit()
+            await commit.dispose()
+        }) ()
+
+        block.exit.resolve()
+
+        await (async () => {
+            const prepare = []
+            const commit = new Commit(this)
+
+            prepare.push({
+                method: 'unlink',
+                path: path.join('pages', leaf.entry.value.id, first)
+            })
+
+            prepare.push(await commit.vacuum(leaf.entry.value.id, first, second, items, leaf.entry.value.right))
+            // Merged pages themselves can just be deleted, but when we do, we
+            // need to... Seems like both split and merge can use the same
+            // mechanism, this dependant reference. So, every page we load has a
+            // list of dependents. We can eliminate any that we know we can
+            // delete.
+
+            // Delete previous versions. Oof. Split means we have multiple
+            // references.
+            const deleted = {}
+            const deletions = {}
+            const dependencies = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(leaf.entry.value.dependencies))
+
+            // Could save some file operations by maybe doing the will be deleted
+            // removals first, but this logic is cleaner.
+            for (const page in dependencies) {
+                for (const dependent in dependencies[page]) {
+                    const [ id, append ] = dependent.split('/')
+                    try {
+                        await fs.stat(this._path('pages', id, append))
+                    } catch (error) {
+                        Strata.Error.assert(error.code == 'ENOENT', 'vacuum.not.enoent', error, { id, append })
+                        deleted[dependent] = true
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            let loop = true
+            while (loop) {
+                loop = false
+                for (const page in dependencies) {
+                    if (Object.keys(dependencies[page]).length == 0) {
+                        loop = true
+                        deleted[page] = true
+                        deletions[page] = true
+                        delete dependencies[page]
+                    } else {
+                        for (const dependent in dependencies[page]) {
+                            if (deleted[dependent]) {
+                                loop = true
+                                delete dependencies[page][dependent]
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Delete all merged pages.
+            for (const deletion in deletions) {
+                const [ id, append ] = deletion.split('/')
+                prepare.push({
+                    method: 'unlink',
+                    path: path.join('pages', id, append)
+                })
+            }
+
+            await commit.write(prepare)
+            await commit.prepare()
+            await commit.commit()
+            await commit.dispose()
+        }) ()
+
+        leaf.entry.release()
+    }
+
     // Assume there is nothing to block or worry about with the branch pages.
     // Can't recall at the moment, though. Descents are all synchronous.
     //
@@ -605,6 +795,7 @@ class Journalist {
             id: this._nextId(true),
             leaf: true,
             items: items,
+            dependencies: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(child.entry.value.dependencies)),
             right: child.entry.value.right,
             append: this._filename()
         })
@@ -635,9 +826,35 @@ class Journalist {
         // Write any queued writes, they would have been in memory, in the page
         // that was split above. Once we await, items can be inserted or removed
         // from the page in memory. Our synchronous operations are over.
+        const append = this._filename()
+        const references = {
+            source: reference(child.entry.value),
+            left: reference(child.entry.value, append),
+            right: reference(right.value)
+        }
         const writes = this._queue(child.entry.value.id).writes.splice(0)
+        writes.push({
+            header: { method: 'dependent', id: child.entry.value.id, append },
+            body: null
+        }, {
+            header: { method: 'dependent', id: right.value.id, append: right.value.append },
+            body: null
+        })
         await this._writeLeaf(child.entry.value.id, writes)
 
+        // TODO Maybe keep the merge, load records in the page and add then,
+        // then reconstruct dependencies by replaying them.
+        const dependencies = {
+            left: new Dependencies(child.entry.value.dependencies),
+            right: new Dependencies(right.value.dependencies),
+        }
+
+        dependencies.left.page(child.entry.value, append)
+        dependencies.left.page(child.entry.value).add(child.entry.value, append)
+        dependencies.left.page(child.entry.value).add(right.value)
+
+        dependencies.right.page(right.value)
+
         // Curious race condition here, though, where we've flushed the page to
         // split
 
@@ -665,7 +882,6 @@ class Journalist {
 
         // Record the split of the left page in a new stub, for which we create
         // a new append file.
-        const append = this._filename()
         prepare.push({
             method: 'stub',
             page: { id: child.entry.value.id, append },
@@ -702,6 +918,9 @@ class Journalist {
         // that will be changing the tree structure.
         entries.forEach(entry => entry.release())
         await this._possibleSplit(parent.entry.value, key, parent.level)
+
+        await this._vacuum(key)
+        await this._vacuum(right.value.items[0].key)
     }
 
     async _selectMerger (key, child, entries) {
@@ -961,7 +1180,14 @@ class Journalist {
         // currently blocked. We start by flushing any cached writes.
         const writes = {
             left: this._queue(left.entry.value.id).writes.splice(0),
-            right: this._queue(right.entry.value.id).writes.splice(0)
+            right: this._queue(right.entry.value.id).writes.splice(0).concat({
+                header: {
+                    method: 'dependent',
+                    id: left.entry.value.id,
+                    append: left.entry.value.append
+                },
+                body: null
+            })
         }
 
         await this._writeLeaf(left.entry.value.id, writes.left)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f5ded204..1e8b67de 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
                             "fracture":                     "0.3.0-alpha.7",
                             "hash.fnv":                     "^1.0.5",
                             "interrupt":                    "^9.0.0-alpha.4",
+                            "keyify":                       "^2.0.3",
                             "prospective":                  "^0.1.0-alpha.4",
                             "rimraf":                       "^3.0.0",
                             "turnstile":                    "6.0.0-alpha.2"
diff --git a/recorder.js b/recorder.js
index 45f25881..cb648cb8 100644
--- a/recorder.js
+++ b/recorder.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module.exports = function (checksum) {
     const EOL = Buffer.from('\n')
-    return function (header, body) {
+    return function (header, body = null) {
         const buffers = [], checksums = []
         let length = 0, json = false
         if (body != null) {