Thanks for bringing this to attention Wido - its of interest to us as we are currently looking to migrate mail platforms onto Ceph using NFS, but this seems far more practical.
> -----Original Message----- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Wido den Hollander > Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2017 6:40 PM > To: ceph-us...@ceph.com > Subject: [ceph-users] librmb: Mail storage on RADOS with Dovecot > > 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@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com Confidentiality: This email and any attachments are confidential and may be subject to copyright, legal or some other professional privilege. They are intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). They may only be copied, distributed or disclosed with the consent of the copyright owner. If you have received this email by mistake or by breach of the confidentiality clause, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete or destroy all copies of the email. Any confidentiality, privilege or copyright is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you by mistake. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
