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Quote: Google uses BigFiles with 64-bit offsets, multiple file systems, compression, and allocation/deallocation

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BigFiles are virtual files spanning multiple file systems … The BigFiles package also handles allocation and deallocation … [Google's] needs. BigFiles also support rudimentary compression options.   Google-1   Google-2

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