服务器不缓存是因为linux操作系统会把经常访问的数据存放在内存中.pptVIP

The Google File System (GFS) Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung Introduction Design constraints设计要求 Component failures are the norm 1000s of components Bugs, human errors, failures of memory, disk, connectors, networking, and power supplies Monitoring, error detection, fault tolerance, automatic recovery监控，错误检测，容错，自动恢复 Files are huge by traditional standards Multi-GB files are common Billions of objects Introduction Design constraints Most modifications are appends Random writes are practically nonexistent Many files are written once, and read sequentially Two types of reads Large streaming reads Small random reads (in the forward direction) Sustained bandwidth more important than latency 高度可用的带宽比低延迟更加重要 File system APIs are open to changes Interface Design Not POSIX compliant 不遵守POSIX规范 Additional operations Snapshot Record append Architectural Design A GFS cluster A single master 在逻辑上只有一个master Multiple chunkservers per master Accessed by multiple clients Running on commodity Linux machines A file 数据以文件形式存储在Chunk Server上 Represented as fixed-sized chunks（数据块） Labeled with 64-bit unique global IDs Stored at chunkservers 3-way Mirrored across chunkservers GFS chunkserver Linux file system Architectural Design (2) GFS Master GFS chunkserver Linux file system GFS chunkserver Linux file system Application GFS client chunk location? chunk data? Architectural Design (3) Master server Maintains all metadata Name space, access control, file-to-chunk mappings, garbage collection, chunk migration GFS clients Consult master for metadata Access data from chunkservers Does not go through VFS No caching at clients and chunkservers due to the frequent case of streaming 客户端大部分是流式顺序读写，并不存在大量的重复读写，缓存文件数据对提高系统整体性能的作用不大，服务器不缓存是因为Linux操作系统会把经常访问的数据存放在内存中 Single-Master Design Simple Master answers only chunk locations A client typically asks for multiple chunk locations in a single request The master also predicatively provide chunk locations immediately f