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