Enjoy weekly paper reviews delivered to your inbox or subscribe to the Atom feed. Learn about the Google File System (GFS) that revolutionized Google’s storage in its early days. GFS split files into chunks for replication across machines, improving performance and enabling large files behind a simple abstraction. The master and chunk servers play crucial roles in reading and writing data. However, GFS had limitations, including scalability issues with small files. Despite this, GFS was widely adopted within Google. The system’s success led to the development of new storage solutions like BigTable. Stay tuned for upcoming changes and improvements in Google’s storage system.
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