Introduction to Colossus

Understand the importance of Colossus and its high-level design.

Colossus is the descendant of the Google File system (GFS). Let's examine why Google needed to develop Colossus (a new file system) while GFS was already there.


Question: What do you think is the limiting component of GFS due to which Google designed Colossus?

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