Ghemawat, Gobioff and Leung: the Google File System

What changed

A working storage design demonstrated how routine component failure could be managed at large data scale.

Scientific scope

2003 three-author SOSP paper and reported production context; later successor systems and all storage workloads excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The entry is the 2003 SOSP paper and its production design context. It does not generalize every engineering choice to all storage workloads or include later successor systems.

Contributors

• Sanjay Ghemawat · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Howard Gobioff · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Shun-Tak Leung · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Ghemawat, Gobioff and Leung, The Google File System
• CiNii: The Google File System

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