The Google File System - Paper Explained

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In the video, I dissected the Google File System research paper from 2003, highlighting its key aspects. The system is designed to run on commodity hardware, making it scalable and fault-tolerant. Google optimized for storing large files, focusing on append operations rather than overwrites. They also emphasized fault detection, fault tolerance, and automated recovery. The system divided files into chunks for parallelism, load balancing, fault tolerance, and easy storage allocation. Replication factor of 3 ensured fault tolerance, with a master node managing metadata.

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