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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. You mean FAT don't cut it no more? by inertialmatrix · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I say screw the inovation and lets all just move back to FAT16!
    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

  2. Re:In case you don't like PDF by RobertB-DC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How ironic, that the HTML-ized file on Google is available from Yahoo!...

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    Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
  3. Are we attempting to /. Google now? by mabhatter654 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Is this to see what happens when there is unlimited bandwidth for a /.ing?

    In other news, what happens when Google [well what ever they do?] sends it's people back to /.? After all the top page for Google should be pointing here real-soon-now! Could this be the first ever successful reverse-slashdotting?

  4. Re:In case you don't like PDF by rjch · · Score: 1, Redundant
    A ramdisk would make for a great swap partition. :)
    Oh I wish I had a Redundant (+1) modifier... :)