The Google File System

We have designed and implemented the Google File System
(GFS) to meet the rapidly growing demands of Google’s
data processing needs. GFS shares many of the same goals
as previous distributed file systems such as performance,
scalability, reliability, and availability. However, its design
has been driven by key observations of our application workloads
and technological environment, both current and anticipated,
that reflect a marked departure from some earlier
file system design assumptions. We have reexamined traditional
choices and explored radically different points in the
design space.

google , file , system , application , technology