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== Interface == The Google File System does not provide a [[POSIX]] interface.<ref name="convo">{{cite journal |author1=Marshall Kirk McKusick |author2=Sean Quinlan |title=GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward |journal=ACM Queue |date=August 2009 |volume=7 |issue=7 |pages=10β20 |doi=10.1145/1594204.1594206 |url=https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206 |access-date=21 December 2019|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Files are organized hierarchically in directories and identified by pathnames. The file operations such as create, delete, open, close, read, write are supported. It supports Record Append which allows multiple clients to append data to the same file concurrently and atomicity is guaranteed.
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