Google File System

Google File System
Developer(s)Google
Operating systemLinux kernel
TypeDistributed file system
LicenseProprietary

Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Google file system was replaced by Colossus in 2010.

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