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Re:Understanding Google’s File System (2020) by lokar on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:35AM (#32677906)
GFS predated chubby.

The master is configured with the endpoints for all the chunkaervers. A separate control/config system supported this including things like automatic replacement of dead nodes.

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Re:Understanding Google’s File System (2020) by kirugan on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:57PM (#32682209)
how do you know?
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Re:Understanding Google’s File System (2020) by lokar on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:11PM (#32685064)
I was there
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Re:Understanding Google’s File System (2020) by kirugan on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:07PM (#32693164)
Awesome! Just checked the whitepaper there was a cluster with 300 machines, so all machines had to be described in configuration file that was used by master, right?
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Re:Understanding Google’s File System (2020) by lokar on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:00AM (#32702490)
Mostly. Binaries of that era took everything on the command line. The config system would generate that from files and keep the running binaries up to date via ssh.
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