Why Google File System divide files into Chunks with 64 MB？

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Is there any reasons for dividing into 64 MB? And they divide each chunk as 64 KB blocks .Is there any reason for this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '13 at 04:30

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Yes there are. You should check this document on Google File System. See 2.5 Chunk Size

answered Dec 08 '13 at 04:30

Ale Zalazar

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