This looks great Wido!

Kudos to all involved.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> 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
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Cheers,
Brad
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