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OSWeekly: Unleashing Google File System: An Overview

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 31, 2006

[ Thanks to Navrat for this link.
]

“I had a course on distributed system in my Engineering
curriculum, and I was really fascinated with the way people use
this technology for work. As my interest grew in this field, I
started to read a lot on this. As a result, while browsing a few
pages, I found a link to Google File System. Honestly, it didn’t
make any sense to me. Where would Google deploy this proprietary
file system? Or is Google planning to have an operating system? I
decided to have a look at it nonetheless and here’s a quick
overview of my findings.

“GFS (Google File System) is a distributed file system. A
Distributed File System is one that supports sharing of files and
resources, which are stored persistently over the network. GFS is
implemented by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak
Leung…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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