Out of curiosity, why would you prefer this sort of implementation to something more in line with MogileFS? [e.g. Metadata storage with the actual file stored i

Out of curiosity, why would you prefer this sort of implementation to something more in line with MogileFS? [e.g. Metadata storage with the actual file stored independently on the local file system of multiple physical nodes] https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/ https://code.google.com/p/mogilefs/