The other commenter already outlined the main trade-offs, which boils down to increased latency and storage overhead for the file-per-object model. As for pape

The other commenter already outlined the main trade-offs, which boils down to increased latency and storage overhead for the file-per-object model. As for papers, I like the design of Haystack. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...