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What I think the GP means is previously, GFS ran on their own machines and didn't need to participate in the Google-wide quota system for CPU/RAM. However Colo
by marklar423 3y ago
What I think the GP means is previously, GFS ran on their own machines and didn't need to participate in the Google-wide quota system for CPU/RAM.
However Colossus _does_ run on the general Google compute infrastructure, and so needed a way to get CPU/RAM quota where none existed (because it was all used by existing, non-storage users).