The Google file system
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...However, because of the phenomenal growth of Web services through the early 2000’s, many large Internet companies, including Amazon, eBay, Google, Microsoft and others, were already doing so. Equally important, these companies also had to develop scalable software infrastructure (such as MapReduce, the Google File System, BigTable, and Dynamo [16, 20 , 14, 17]) and the operational expertise to armor their datacenters against potential ......
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...As disks are relatively cheap and replication is simpler than more sophisticated RAID [9] approaches, GFS currently uses only replication for redundancy and so consumes more raw storage than xFS or Swift....
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...As disks are relatively cheap and replication is simpler than more sophisticated RAID [9] approaches, GFS currently uses only replication for redundancy and so consumes more raw storage than xFS or Swift....
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...A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)....
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...GPFS: A shared-disk.le system for large computing clusters....
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...Some distributed file systems like Frangipani, xFS, Minnesota’s GFS[11] and GPFS [10] remove the centralized server and rely on distributed algorithms for consistency and man-...
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...Some distributed .le systems like Frangipani, xFS, Minnesota s GFS[11] and GPFS [10] remove the centralized server and rely on distributed algorithms for consistency and management....
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