1. A method of configuring and storing data in a storage system, the method comprising: implementing a file system storing data in variable sized objects data, the file system comprising a plurality of ranks, each of the ranks including an array of disks configured to provide a plurality of stripes for storing objects; keeping track of space usage in a data storage subsystem via a stripe space table; configuring the file system, via utilization of additional metadata and without violating one or more requirements for placing redundant data on a store different than a device for regular file data, to write redundant data anywhere on the disk array without restriction of association by allocation rules; and performing processing, via the file system, comprising: writing each stripe of data as a unit into a portion of the plurality of ranks; communicatively coupling a transaction-logging data storage system to the data storage subsystem; managing data storage subsystem services to take on features of a stripe-implemented storage technology; processing mapping information between data object identifiers and physical address information of the variable-sized data objects within the data storage subsystem; and performing operations among the data storage subsystem, a mapping component and the stripe space table, wherein the operations are coordinated to implement logging variable-sized data objects to be stored and logging changes to stored, variable-sized data objects.