RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google Gmail...

["Woodsmall, Ryan \(IATS\)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I can't find the info, but I believe that they wrote their own clustered filesystem/database driver.  They span their web archives and crawler logs across many, many machines (10 to 12 THOUSAND) running Linux.  I have a feeling that they could do it the DIY way and still be successful.  Granted, building the systems would be a lot more work, but I suffer from a bad case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome; weird, considering I want an iBook and own and old iMac...
 
  ryan woodsmall
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From: EMAIL:PROTECTED on behalf of Dave Lloyd
Sent: Thu 4/1/2004 5:12 PM
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Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Google Gmail...



On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Woodsmall, Ryan (IATS) wrote:

> Don't they build their own systems?  I know they did in the past, but
> I'm not sure they do so anymore.  Just get a few of those spiffy 3Ware
> RAID cards, some cheap 350/400GB IDE drives, stuff them into a rackmount
> case and voila, Gmail.  ;)

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. 

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--dlloyd

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