[Dovecot] key -> object mailstore

[Alessio Cecchi]

Il 15/09/2012 05:39, Jeff Gustafson ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 17:59 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I've a whole new design for it and I was planning on implementing it
>> for v2.2. Do you want to help coding it? :) Which storage would you
>> want to use?
>>
>> The generic idea is:
>>   - only one server accesses one user simultaneously
>>   - index files are copied from object storage to local filesystem and
>> accessed there, once in a while uploaded back to object storage
>>   - if user is accessed from two servers because of some bug/split
>> brain/something, the changes are merged using dsync
>>   - support high latency: asynchronous reads/writes. prefetch mail bodies.
> 	With this system, would the read/write ultimately go to a normal OS
> file function? If it is a file function, could this be used with a
> system like glusterfs, ceph, etc? The other option would be to write it
> against a object store client library and bypass the normal file
> functions.
>
> 			...Jeff
>

Also other users are talking about Ceph and Dovecot

http://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org/msg07345.html

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