No, not for lack of interest though.

The former feels abandoned and has design issues IMHO.

The later is a Dovecot Pro thing and when I talked with Timo 2(?) years ago he felt that Ceph with S3 or Swift wasn't a good fit and we didn't really want to go with Scality and simply can't do out of house/country stuff.

The thing I said back then and I still think is valid is that I feel object storage with lots of small objects is going to require a fast and studly storage system below and due to the nature of the beast still loose against something like DRBD when it comes to both latency and overall costs.

It also becomes more of a black box than maildir on a file system, but that's another and lesser issue.

Christian

On Tue, 14 May 2019 14:58:10 +0200 Marc Roos via dovecot wrote:

Just curious if there are already people actively using object storage?

https://github.com/ceph-dovecot/dovecot-ceph-plugin https://docplayer.net/docs-images/40/9935441/images/page_13.jpg

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