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Today Swift uses replication for data durability and overall performance. However, in some use cases, the low-latency and high availability of replica storage is not as important as reducing the overall storage footprint. These use cases are normally characterized by having at least one of the following properties: 1) Large aggregate size 2) Large individual object sizes 3) Infrequent access. One example of this use case is a cluster that is used as storage capacity for backups.

To implement erasure codes into Swift, we need to answer the following questions:

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