Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2009-08-18

1) Interview about the evolution of the Google File System (GFS)

The ACM Queue has an interesting interview with Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan.

  All in all, the report card on GFS nearly 10 years later seems
  positive. There have been problems and shortcomings, to be sure, but
  there's surely no arguing with Google's success and GFS has without a
  doubt played an important role in that. What's more, its staying power
  has been nothing short of remarkable given that Google's operations have
  scaled orders of magnitude beyond anything the system had been designed
  to handle, while the application mix Google currently supports is not one
  that anyone could have possibly imagined back in the late '90s.