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
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