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
