GFS Paper (2003)
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“The Google File System” (2003) — Ghemawat, Gobioff, Leung
The distributed file system that started it all. Designed for large-scale data-intensive applications with commodity hardware. Key ideas: large chunk size (64MB), single master with multiple chunkservers, append-optimized writes. Directly inspired HDFS and the entire Hadoop ecosystem.
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google-internal papers gfs #2003