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The Design Of The Google File System

Posted by timothy on from the library-of-babel dept.

Freddles writes "This is an interesting paper (PDF) describing the design approach to Google's file system. The design had to take account of requirements for huge file sizes, a highly responsive infrastructure and an assumption that hardware components will always fail."

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  1. Thoughtful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was thoughtful of the poster to link to google.com for those that have never heard of it.

    1. Re:Thoughtful... by Queuetue · · Score: 5, Funny

      Absolutely - I was about to go look google up on teoma and askjeeves...

    2. Re:Thoughtful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Last week I had a co-worker ask how to spell it. He is MS cert'd for Win2k Pro. Don't mod this funny, it's sad.

  2. Re:In case you don't like PDF by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    A ramdisk would make for a great swap partition. :)

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  3. Google cache by Skreech · · Score: 5, Funny

    In case Google gets slashdotted, here is the Google cache for Google.