Google Gooses What Is Below Deck
January 23, 2010
The Google hired a chap who is a Linux wizard knowledgeable about Ext4, a zippy file system. You can get more information from the Ext4 page. Computer World’s “The Best Linux File System of All?” provides some interesting information about Google’s engineering decision to embrace Ext4; for example:
- Performance enhancements
- “Supports file systems of up to 1 EB (exabyte) and up to 16 TB (terabyte)-sized files.”
- Use of Ext4 moves “the bottleneck away from the storage stack for some of our most intensive applications.”
Ext4 operates “below” the Google File System. Google tweaks are likely with Ted T’so enjoying Odwalla at the Googleplex,
Stephen E Arnold, January 23, 2010
No one paid me to write this. I will report this fact to DEA.
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