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...
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Files (formerly known as Files Go) is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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Google Drive is a file-hosting service and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store...
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Apache Hadoop (redirect from Hadoop Distributed File System)
Hadoop's MapReduce and HDFS components were inspired by Google papers on MapReduce and Google File System. The Hadoop framework itself is mostly written in...
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application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint file formats. The app allows users to create and edit files online while...
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In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...
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Google File System, Lustre or Ceph. The file system comprises three components: Metadata server (MDS) — manages the location (layout) of files, file access...
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file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...
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application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats. The app allows users to create and edit files online while collaborating...
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ChromeOS (redirect from Google Chrome Operating System)
an operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google Chrome web browser...
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compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. All widely used file systems record a last modified time stamp (also known as "mtime")...
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distributed file systems (DFS) of this type are the Google File System (GFS) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The file systems of both are...
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable...
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to more thorough information on file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart...
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storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or...
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The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed to replicate...
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distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Lustre file system...
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Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods...
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Sanjay Ghemawat (category Google employees)
Jeff Dean, has included big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and databases Bigtable and Spanner. Wired has described him as one...
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File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating...
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also developing a Linux-based mobile operating system like Google. In September 2007, Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile...
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GPFS (redirect from General Parallel File System)
(General Parallel File System, brand name IBM Storage Scale and previously IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system software developed...
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NTFS (redirect from NT File System)
NT File System (NTFS) (commonly called New Technology File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was...
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scheduling, Google Maps and Google Earth for mapping, navigation and satellite imagery, Google Drive for cloud storage of files, Google Docs, Sheets...
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Installable File System (IFS) is a filesystem API in MS-DOS/PC DOS 4.x, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system to recognize...
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Object storage (redirect from Object-based file system)
the Google File System. Other related work includes the Coda filesystem project at Carnegie Mellon, which started in 1987, and spawned the Lustre file system...
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(GWS) – custom Linux-based Web server that Google uses for its online services. Storage systems: Google File System and its successor, Colossus Bigtable –...
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table...
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