So what you're advocating is that instead of creating an ext4/zfs/xfs file syste...

		winter_blue on Feb 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google seeks new disks for data centers So what you're advocating is that instead of creating an ext4/zfs/xfs file system on each drive, have a sort of distributed filesystem that has raw access to each drive. And the i-node of the distributed filesystem could be always-available on RAM with SSD backing. My guess is, Google probably already does this.