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GFS and Chubby
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Let's explore how BigTable interacts with GFS and Chubby.

GFS

GFS is a scalable distributed file system developed by Google for its large data-intensive applications such as BigTable.

  • GFS files are broken into fixed-size blocks, called Chunks.
  • Chunks are stored on data servers called ChunkServers.
  • GFS master manages the metadata.
  • SSTables are divided into fixed-size, blocks and these blocks are stored on ChunkServers.
  • Each chunk in GFS is replicated across multiple ChunkServers for reliability.

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