@InProceedings{johnson:insertions,
  author = {Theodore Johnson},
  title = {Supporting Insertions and Deletions in Striped Parallel
  Filesystems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Parallel Processing
  Symposium},
  year = {1993},
  pages = {425--433},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {Newport Beach, CA},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, multiprocessor file system, pario-bib},
  comment = {If you insert blocks into a striped file, you mess up the nice
  striping. So he breaks the file into striped extents, and keeps track of the
  extents with a distributed B-tree index. Deletions also fit into the same
  scheme.}
}