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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. Only a file system? by jrrl · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Back in the early days at Lycos, Danner Stodolsky, now at Akamai used so many weird little tricks to make things faster that we used to joke that we'd end up with a custom operating system. The supposed name? LycOS.

    Luckily the world was saved from this possibility.

    -John (now, one of those "why, back in my day..." story telling guys... sigh.)

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  2. they published it ... by trick-knee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... which may not have happened from just any company of google's prominence. I mean, they have highly successful business and technical infrastructure models and they didn't HAVE to share it with anyone.

    I wonder what they believe will protect their business from poaching of these ideas?