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Cool solution! Almost like cache wrapping a hard disk.

I am curious as to why they can’t tolerate Disk failures though, and why they need to use the Google persistent storage rather than an attached SSD for their workload.

I would have expected a fault tolerant design with multiple copies of the data, so even if a single disk dies, who cares.




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