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>I wonder if that wouldn't be really inefficient, though, depending on
>how you store data.  Is one user's data all on one machine?  What
>happens when that drive or machine breaks?  I think that if you want
>reliability and redundancy, which gmail will have to have, you'll need
>to have some sort of "enterprise level" (man, I hate that buzzphrase!)
>storage solution.
>
Doesn't LVM let you span multiple systems now (as of 2.6) as a single 
logical volume? Throw a bunch of those 300GB drives together in rack 
mounted systems and connect the entire cluster together as a single 
logical volume. Magic, enterprise level storage.
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