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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by wrayjustin on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:30AM (#17606909)
> includes approximately one billion files

...

> including approximately two billion lines of code

_also_

> in nine million unique source files

I should insert a joke about how well the system would do if each source file contained more than two lines of code.

But seriously, this summary could use some work.

Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by rpcastagna on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:47AM (#17606963)
Binary files (arbitrary example: images used for golden screenshots in tests) have no line counts and are likely skewing the numbers here -- in the way you're (logically) looking to interpret them at least.

From a system design perspective, being able to handle a large number of files regardless of type is an interesting challenge, as is being able to handle a large number of highly indexed text files. All three of those statistics seem potentially interesting for different audiences that might read this paper.