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not as important as you might think (Score:1)

by perrin (4270)

People have commented about this on Slashdot saying that they use this file system for internal work, not for the web site. There's an example here [slashdot.org]. You have to take Slashdot comments with a pound of salt, but this sounds reasonable.
- Re:not as important as you might think (Score:1)
  
  by iburrell (4155)
  
  It sounds like they use it for the production of the indexes. I think that is pretty important.
- Re:not as important as you might think (Score:2)
  
  by acme (189)
  
  We've seen at work that large storage systems are very expensive and quite fragile. That's mostly why I was interested in something cheap (commodity hardware) and very reliable. It's not for everyone, of course.
  - Re:not as important as you might think (Score:1)
    
    by perrin (4270)
    
    It sounds like a good system to me. I just meant that it's probably not used for what most people assume it is used for, i.e. directly running the Google site. A distributed system for storing large data sets does sound valuable.

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