The Design Of The Google File System

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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Re:In case you don't like PDF

[Queuetue]

Thanks for the effort, but HTML-from-PDF is actually worse than just plain PDF. :)

Re:Story summary

[caluml]

Who modded this as a troll? It's pretty funny. If the Metamod is reading this, I reckon this should be unfair. In fact, I'm going to click the "Have you Meta Moderated recently?" link that is looking at me, in the hope that that mod comes up.

Re:Just to make it clear..

[larry bagina]

I don't know about the front end, but you can get a picture of the back-end here