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Revision as of 19:49, 15 January 2010
Simple Web-Accessible Storage
Overview
SWAP provides a simple mechanism to distribute data across multiple partitions or servers while providing simple mechanism to retrieve all data.
Below is a set of key design goals for SWAP:
- Data must be easily accessible in the absence of ANY software beyond basic directory access.
- No centralized metadata server.
- Provide distributed http access to data.