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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward
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| A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and
| evolution of the Google File System.
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| During the early stages of development at Google, the initial thinking did
| not include plans for building a new file system. While work was still being
| done on one of the earliest versions of the company's crawl and indexing
| system, however, it became quite clear to the core engineers that they really
| had no other choice, and GFS (Google File System) was born.
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| [...]
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| Part of this, of course, was driven by necessity. Since Google's plans rested
| largely on massive deployments of commodity hardware, failures and
| hardware-related faults were a given. Beyond that, according to the original
| GFS paper, there were a few compatibility issues.
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http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206
Recent:
Achieving Robust Clustered Storage with Linux and GFS
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| Load balancing is difficult. We often we need to share file systems via NFS
| or other mechanisms to provide a central location for the data. While you may
| be protected against a Web server node failure, you are still sharing fate
| with the central storage node.
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http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3824876
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