[Dovecot] "failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Not enough disk space." with large mail

[Stan Hoeppner]

Timo Sirainen put forth on 6/10/2010 10:54 PM:
> On 11.6.2010, at 4.23, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> 
>> Jakob Curdes put forth on 6/10/2010 10:54 AM:
>>
>>> Same here, we run a  mailbox_size_limit of 700MB and have several users
>>> regularly hitting the limit.
>>> Can't really slap them as they would reply " on google I have 7 GB mail
>>> space".
>>
>> I wonder how often Google does full disaster recovery off site
>> backup/mirroring of all those millions of _free_ 7GB mailboxen.  AFAIK, Google
>> makes no guarantees WRT mailbox contents.  They may have full multi site
>> redundancy, but I've yet to read a whitepaper describing it.
> 
> GMail (probably) uses Bigtable, which does have a whitepaper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en//papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

Thanks Timo.  I'm surprised I hadn't run across this yet.  I've been curious
about it for a while now.

-- 
Stan