GFS
Google File System(GFS or GoogleFS) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google Inc. for its own use. It is designed to provide efficient reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. A new version of the Goofle File System is codenamed Colossus.
GFS is optimized for Google’s core data storage and usage needs(primarily the search engine), which can generate enormous amounts of data that needs to be retained. GFS grew out of an earlier Google effort, “BigFiles”. Files are divided into fixed-size chunks of 64 megabytes, similar to clusters or sectors in regular file systems, which are only extremely rarely overwritten. Pr shrunk; files are usually appended to or read. It is also designed and optimized to run on Google’s computing clysers, dense nodes which consist