What is the GFS
Introduction The GFS is a file system based on the distributed systems and designed by Google for the map reduce module. It has the essential elements of the distributed systems, such as fault-tolerant, replica, etc. So that, it is different from standard filesystems. And in the design, GFS will not provide a POSIX interface, so you will only access it using a special SDK. And Google already deprecated the GFS and designed a new file system, but the GFS still is valuable for learning distributed systems. ...