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Advantageously, the storage controller 152 can accept write requests that do more than write a new object or append data to an existing object. For example, a write request received by the object request receiver module 260 may include a request to add data ahead of data stored by the storage controller 152, to insert data into the stored data, or to replace a segment of data. The object index maintained by the storage controller 152 provides the flexibility required for these complex write operations that is not available in other storage controllers, but is currently available only outside of storage controllers in file systems of servers and other computers.

Added by DJM 3 2021