That's curious, because the OpenStack Swift docs say "Objects are stored as binary files on the filesystem with metadata stored in the file’s extended attributes (xattrs)".
As far as I know, the advantage comes from exposing a course-grained API over the network, which is generally more efficient and reliable than doing many small operations. It would be hard to implement Minio's distributed mode using the filesystem API.
As far as I know, the advantage comes from exposing a course-grained API over the network, which is generally more efficient and reliable than doing many small operations. It would be hard to implement Minio's distributed mode using the filesystem API.