2009/08/01 by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Sean Quinlan · 71 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Engineering · #Web Data Mining and Analysis #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Data Mining Algorithms and Applications #Computer science #Core (optical fiber) #Search engine indexing #Work (physics) #File system #Operating system #World Wide Web #Telecommunications #Engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/1594204.1594206
published in Queue 7(7), 10-20 (Association for Computing Machinery)
openalex publication_date 2009/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
During the early stages of development at Google, the initial thinking did not include plans for building a new file system. While work was still being done on one of the earliest versions of the company’s crawl and indexing system, however, it became quite clear to the core engineers that they really had no other choice, and GFS (Google File System) was born.