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SwarmNFS renaming

SwarmNFS is renamed SwarmFS as of Swarm 12 to reflect the expanded scope of capabilities.

SwarmFS is a lightweight file protocol converter that brings the benefits of Swarm's scale-out object storage to NFSv4, seamlessly integrating files and object storage. With SwarmFS, data can be securely stored and accessed via NFSv4, S3, HDFS, and SCSP/HTTP, making it possible to organize billions of files coming from different protocols, distribute data to different locations, and search all files at once.

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  • Rapid updates — Frequent file updates, such as updates to databases, video editing, and storage of active vmdk files does not perform well and are not recommended.

  • Large files — SwarmFS performs well with files up to 30GB and best with files of 10GB and smaller; however, writing files of 100GB and greater is regularly tested. Reading from files (objects) of any size is fully supported.

  • Versioning — Object versioning is supported (the last version written by any method becomes the current version), but it makes heavy demands on storage resources; enabling it in a SwarmFS context is not recommended.

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