“I had a course on distributed system in my Engineering curriculum, and I was really fascinated with the way people use this technology for work. As my interest grew in this field, I started to read a lot on this. As a result, while browsing a few pages, I found a link to Google File System. Honestly, it didn’t make any sense to me. Where would Google deploy this proprietary file system? Or is Google planning to have an operating system? I decided to have a look at it nonetheless and here’s a quick overview of my findings.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Google’s got a file system
OS Weekly takes an introductory peek at what would seem to be a file system designed and used by Google. It’s not likely that a Google OS is included in with all the other projects Google is working on, this is probably just the biggest distributed file system going.