I was reading the Google Bigtable paper and stumbled upon this word chunk server used in Google File System. So I wanted to know is there any difference in chunk server and simply a server.
Thanks in advance!
how is a chunk server different from normal server?
1.6k views Asked by Ravi Raja At
1
There are 1 answers
Related Questions in SERVER
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Related Questions in GFS
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Popular Questions
- How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git?
- How can I remove a specific item from an array in JavaScript?
- How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely?
- Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux?
- How do I revert a Git repository to a previous commit?
- How do I create an HTML button that acts like a link?
- How do I check out a remote Git branch?
- How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?
- How do I list all files of a directory?
- How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?
- How do I redirect to another webpage?
- How can I iterate over rows in a Pandas DataFrame?
- How do I convert a String to an int in Java?
- Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?
- How do I check if a string contains a specific word?
Popular Tags
Trending Questions
- UIImageView Frame Doesn't Reflect Constraints
- Is it possible to use adb commands to click on a view by finding its ID?
- How to create a new web character symbol recognizable by html/javascript?
- Why isn't my CSS3 animation smooth in Google Chrome (but very smooth on other browsers)?
- Heap Gives Page Fault
- Connect ffmpeg to Visual Studio 2008
- Both Object- and ValueAnimator jumps when Duration is set above API LvL 24
- How to avoid default initialization of objects in std::vector?
- second argument of the command line arguments in a format other than char** argv or char* argv[]
- How to improve efficiency of algorithm which generates next lexicographic permutation?
- Navigating to the another actvity app getting crash in android
- How to read the particular message format in android and store in sqlite database?
- Resetting inventory status after order is cancelled
- Efficiently compute powers of X in SSE/AVX
- Insert into an external database using ajax and php : POST 500 (Internal Server Error)
The Wikipedia article about the Google File System explains the role of the Chunk Server in detail. The short answer is, no, there's not really a difference.
Chunk Servers are/(were) just like any other servers, but simply taking on the specific role of serving fixed size chunks or blobs of data. The servers were provisioned, configured and optimized accordingly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System