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by chrisprobert 2919 days ago
I'm curious whether this is backed by Google File System (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...), or something else.
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ebikelaw 2919 days ago
Nothing at Google has been backed by GFS in many years. https://www.wired.com/2012/07/google-colossus/
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puzzle 2919 days ago
Well, the poster probably meant whatever GFS incarnation is around these days (Colossus is v2 or v3, depending on how you look at things). In the end, almost everything at Google is backed by "GFS": Bigtable, Blobstore, GCS, Spanner, Megastore, etc. There's little else that is not backed by GFS, but talks to D directly. At least that has been mentioned in public, of course. Still, none of it is user facing/serving, though.
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cobookman 2919 days ago
Google Cloud Storage (GCS), an S3 competitor, is backed by Colossus (CNS). [1]. Colossus is the replacement to Google File System (GFS).

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/01/easier-faster-l...

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manigandham 2919 days ago
Judging by pricing and performance, it's mostly likely using their existing Persistent Disks offering and wrapping it in a managed NFS layer.

https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/

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