From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Google's GFS From: "Skip Tavakkolian" In-Reply-To: <9812e67daef53f156869db4757afba62@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:27:41 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 56003838-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Maybe I'm missing something fundamental, but I really don't think > that either Plan 9 file server is anything like Google's file system. I find it hard to believe that a comparative analysis wouldn't have included at least one of the Plan9 fs'es. To my (novice) thinking some concepts sounded similar: append-only writes, namespace management, snapshots, two tiered architecture.