Hadoop Distributed File System and Google File System

Learn what GFS and HDFS are. Look into the requirements and the architecture of GFS.

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Google File System (GFS)S. Ghemawat, H. Gobioff, and S.-T. Leung, “The Google File System,” Symposium on Operating Systems Principles ’03, 2003. is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google. It is also the inspiration for the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), a distributed file system developed as an Apache project.

Note: The basic design principles are similar for these two systems, with some small differences.

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