This looks great Wido! Kudos to all involved. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > A tracker issue has been out there for a while: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/12430 > > Storing e-mail in RADOS with Dovecot, the IMAP/POP3/LDA server with a huge marketshare. > > It took a while, but last year Deutsche Telekom took on the heavy work and started a project to develop librmb: LibRadosMailBox > > Together with Deutsche Telekom and Tallence GmbH (DE) this project came to life. > > First, the Github link: https://github.com/ceph-dovecot/dovecot-ceph-plugin > > I am not going to repeat everything which is on Github, put a short summary: > > - CephFS is used for storing Mailbox Indexes > - E-Mails are stored directly as RADOS objects > - It's a Dovecot plugin > > We would like everybody to test librmb and report back issues on Github so that further development can be done. > > It's not finalized yet, but all the help is welcome to make librmb the best solution for storing your e-mails on Ceph with Dovecot. > > Danny Al-Gaaf has written a small blogpost about it and a presentation: > > - https://dalgaaf.github.io/CephMeetUpBerlin20170918-librmb/ > - http://blog.bisect.de/2017/09/ceph-meetup-berlin-followup-librmb.html > > To get a idea of the scale: 4,7PB of RAW storage over 1.200 OSDs is the final goal (last slide in presentation). That will provide roughly 1,2PB of usable storage capacity for storing e-mail, a lot of e-mail. > > To see this project finally go into the Open Source world excites me a lot :-) > > A very, very big thanks to Deutsche Telekom for funding this awesome project! > > A big thanks as well to Tallence as they did an awesome job in developing librmb in such a short time. > > Wido > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -- Cheers, Brad _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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