Re: [DotGNU]VRS DFS: paper of interest (Google file system)

[Chris Smith]

Hi Eric.
Very cool.  I'll check it out.  Thanks for the poiner.

Chris

On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 16:43, Eric Altendorf wrote:
> Hi folks, still lurking, sorry for the lack of participation.  I saw
> this and thought it might be of interest to anyone still thinking
> about the design of the distributed file system for VRS.
>
> Good points in relation to the VRS: (1) it's distributed over
> unreliable hardware and connections, (2) it makes use of the
> underlying filesystem and stores there large "chunks" (64MB) of the
> very large (multi-gig) "actual" files (which, for the VRS, could
> actually be essentially encrypted disk or filesystem images).
>
> Bad points: it's designed primarily for streaming -- appending to the
> end of large files, and reading long continuous streams of data from
> a file.  Small files, middle-of-the-file writes, and caching of data
> is avoided.
>
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> O | S | D | N      NEWSLETTER      September 30, 2003
>
> The Design Of The Google File System
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/2227224
>
>     [0]Freddles writes "This is [1]an interesting paper (PDF)
>  describing the design approach to [2]Google's file system. The
>  design had to take account of requirements for huge file sizes, a
>  highly responsive infrastructure and an assumption that hardware
>  components will always fail."
> Links
>     0. http://www.fredhoysted.com
>     1. http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf
>     2. http://www.google.com/

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