ResearchIndex

abstract:

We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high aggregate performance to a large number of clients. While sharing many of the same goals as previous distributed file systems, our design has been driven by observations of our application workloads and technological environment

publisher:

ACM Press

pages:

29--43

editor:

C\'ecile Roisin and Ethan V. Munson and Christine Vanoirbeek

booktitle:

Proceedings of the 19th {ACM} Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

type:

misc

year:

2003

annote:

failure-resistant distributed filesystem customized for Google needs (large files, sequential writes/appends, stream reads, bandwidth more important than latency, ..) given good performance and latency (thousands of machines, hunderts of TBs of storage). Various engineering trade-offs to adapt to above environment.

address:

Bolton Landing, NY, USA

month:

oct

organization:

ACM

note:

LA-UR-06-?

volume:

37, 5

series:

Operating systems review