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GFS
(Google File System)
Google File System (GFS) is a distributed file system developed by Google to manage large-scale data storage and processing across clusters of commodity hardware. GFS is designed to handle massive amounts of data while providing high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
GFS divides files into fixed-size chunks and distributes them across multiple servers, ensuring redundancy and efficient data access. It is the foundation for many of Google's services, including Bigtable and MapReduce. GFS has inspired other distributed file systems like HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), which is widely used in big data applications.
GFS divides files into fixed-size chunks and distributes them across multiple servers, ensuring redundancy and efficient data access. It is the foundation for many of Google's services, including Bigtable and MapReduce. GFS has inspired other distributed file systems like HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), which is widely used in big data applications.