Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users

Re:Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users by chrisprobert on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:24PM (#17402459)

I'm curious whether this is backed by Google File System (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...), or something else.

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Re:Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users by ebikelaw on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:28PM (#17402497)

Nothing at Google has been backed by GFS in many years. https://www.wired.com/2012/07/google-colossus/

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Re:Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users by puzzle on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:43PM (#17403051)

Well, the poster probably meant whatever GFS incarnation is around these days (Colossus is v2 or v3, depending on how you look at things). In the end, almost everything at Google is backed by "GFS": Bigtable, Blobstore, GCS, Spanner, Megastore, etc. There's little else that is not backed by GFS, but talks to D directly. At least that has been mentioned in public, of course. Still, none of it is user facing/serving, though.

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Re:Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users by cobookman on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:25PM (#17402914)

Google Cloud Storage (GCS), an S3 competitor, is backed by Colossus (CNS). [1]. Colossus is the replacement to Google File System (GFS).

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/01/easier-faster-l...

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Re:Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users by manigandham on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:51PM (#17402664)

Judging by pricing and performance, it's mostly likely using their existing Persistent Disks offering and wrapping it in a managed NFS layer.

https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/

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