Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Google File System: Introduction

A crawler at Google downloads a webpage and writes it to disk. Multiply that by billions of pages, spread across thousands of machines, and you get the problem Google File System was built to solve. This lesson introduces GFS, and where it gets used.

Goal

The goal is a distributed file system that stores huge files, terabyte scale and larger. It has to be scalable, reliable, and highly available.

What is Google File System (GFS)?

GFS is a scalable, distributed file system that Google built for its large data-intensive applications.

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