Distributed File Systems: GFS and HDFS
Complete the following:
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Study the paper:
Ghemawat, Sanjay, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung. “The Google file system.” In Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 29-43. 2003. Available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/945445.945450
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Complete a setup of HDFS using Linux virtual machines (abundant resources online)
Prepare slides for:
- GFS architecture
- GFS performance
- Discuss GFS fault tolerance
- Discuss GFS performance
- Experience of setting up HDFS
Be prepared to present selected slides.