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Mattis describes the single-node GFS master as “a bit of a bottleneck.”

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Peter Mattis·Sep 30, 2026

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There was this GFS master as a single node, and it was a bit of a bottleneck.

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Mattis says Colossus stored its metadata in Bigtable.

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Peter Mattis·Sep 30, 2026

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And so Colossus stored its metadata inside Bigtable.

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