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by packetslave 1514 days ago
Yeah, that was my understanding as well. Colossus stores metadata in Bigtable on top of a smaller Colossus, which stores its metadata in Bigtable on top of an even smaller Colossus, which… [insert more stacks of turtles here] ends up in Chubby.

Public presentation here: http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...