Velocity 08: Storage at Scale

Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 12:34 am, Over one day old

The Google File System (GFS) is a cluster file system with a familiar interface, but not POSIX compliant. The master also handles machine failures. Tables are broken into tablets. The systems need to be more and more automated. The number of systems is growing faster than Google can hire.

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