The Google File System
The foundational paper describing Google's scalable distributed file system designed for large-scale data processing workloads on commodity hardware.
Key papers and resources on distributed storage architectures
Scalable, fault-tolerant storage
Metadata servers, data nodes
Sharding, partitioning
Strong vs. eventual
Caching, prefetching
The foundational paper describing Google's scalable distributed file system designed for large-scale data processing workloads on commodity hardware.
Tectonic's design for exascale storage needs, supporting multitenancy and allowing specialization for diverse workloads.
This article provides an overview of DFS, its architecture, classification methods, design considerations, challenges, and common implementations.
CFS is a scalable, fully POSIX-compliant distributed file system that eliminates the metadata management bottleneck via pruning the scope of critical sections for reduced locking overhead.