Original whitepaper is a great overview of how the system works, but devil in the details. I still have a lot of questions about implementation, for instance:

from where did master get information about chunkservers (chubby, configuration files) ? did chunkserver know about which master it belongs to? etc.

GFS predated chubby.

The master is configured with the endpoints for all the chunkaervers. A separate control/config system supported this including things like automatic replacement of dead nodes.

how do you know?

I was there

Awesome! Just checked the whitepaper there was a cluster with 300 machines, so all machines had to be described in configuration file that was used by master, right?

Mostly. Binaries of that era took everything on the command line. The config system would generate that from files and keep the running binaries up to date via ssh.

What mystery?

Distrust is not because of what the authorities are proposing, but because people are generally distrustful of vaccines.

Do you need any help with Apple Silicon transition? I've purchased a new mac mini recently and looking for an open-source project to contribute.

MyISAM days are gone, no one will seriously consider it as suitable engine in MySQL.

It is quite likely unless you've meticulously avoided it that MySQL is using ISAM on-disk temp tables in the service of your queries.

Actually, that shouldn't be the case since 5.7: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab... (and related: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab...)

And on 8 MyISAM is mostly gone, not even the 'mysql' schema uses it.

Edit: Originally linked only to default_tmp_storage_engine).

I didn't know that, thanks!

Account is over two years old but this is your first comment?

Do you think I'm a bot?)) Lol. Most topics on politics on HN relate to USA, and I have neither interest nor competence to discuss such things.

However, this particular news referring to my home country and I express my own opinion.

There are plenty of KGB troll accounts commenting on this story. They are now most active as they have to do their job of discrediting the story and direct the narrative towards doubt: eg false flag, etc

But the evidence is staggering and it obviously doesn’t work

If you were in Russia you would know that it's not true) Most of FSB are really stupid and old fashioned. These people very far away from Tech, especially top officials. I'm not a fan of Putin either and truly believe that Russia deserves much better president with more liberal views (in a good way of course).

The Kremlin bots are on overtime here

How is the weather in Lubyanka Square comrades?

No one use "comrades" anymore in Russia) it's old stereotype

The Kremlin is the ultimate self-perpetuating stereotype