Talk:Google File System

Access control vs. cacheing

How can users cache metadata if the master-server is used for file-access control? This makes little sense and someone knowledgeable should make corrections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.15.216.70 (talk • contribs)

My understanding is that each client asks the master whether they can access the chunk, which is different from asking where to find the chunk. Not especially secure a system, but on the other hand it is usually running on a private secure network... --maru (talk) contribs 17:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Elaboration

It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable than I could point to real-whorl applications or similar systems, and add them to the body of the article. --Maru Dubshinki 09:30 PM Sunday, 06 March 2005

Grammar

Is it 'high data throughput, at the expense of low latency' or 'high data throughput, at the expense of high latency'? The meaning is that in order to get a high data throughput, low latency performace is sacrificed. But now that someone else has edited it to the latter, I am no longer so sure of my grammar. (hmm... 'high latency' or 'low latency'? ...) --maru 01:26, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)