Some remarks: - replication is way too expensive for what it's worth. As soon as you can afford it you really should go for some kind of erasure coding. The

Some remarks: - replication is way too expensive for what it's worth. As soon as you can afford it you really should go for some kind of erasure coding. The exact moment when erasure coding is more efficient (storage wise, transport wise) and more robust (in terms of devices you can lose) depends on the size of the objects (fixed cost of metadata). - you don't need distributed consistency for the data storage actions just for the meta data (the map that tells you where the data is). You can start pushing data, and if the metadata for the object metadata never is created, you just pushed garbage which can be collected.