Calendar Server attachment space requirements and/or quotas?

We're preparing to upgrade/migrate from Calendar 5.1.1 to Calendar 6.3, and the attachment feature has started to make me nervous, because I can see some of our users potentially over-using this particular feature. So, the first question would be what kind of space requirements are recommended for calendar attachments. Basically, I'd like to get a feel for how much users at other sites actually use attachments, to see what kind of space we should have available for them.
The second question is whether or not there is a quota mechanism for calendar attachments, to keep users from going overboard, or at least forcing them to periodically clean house.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Kurt

sclawson12 wrote:
I have all of my calendar 6.3 data components on separate ZFS file systems in a Zpool.
Separating them out is pretty much what I've done, so that if one gets extraordinarily full, it won't impact the rest while we add some space.
I have around 6500 calendars with a 500 MB main database with ~700,000 entries. Attachments store
is not using much, but mostly because users probably haven't noticed they can do it in UWC I suspect. Most
of the users who do do it would be users that use Outlook connector.We have about 67000 calendars (a mix of users, courses & resources) with the csdb dir taking up about 3GB. I imagine initial usage of attachments will be relatively low, but I have this nagging fear that people will be scheduling the next meeting of their student organization, and have the bright idea of attaching a 3GB DVD image of video from their last get-together. ;)
Thanks,
Kurt

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Thank you

@camelot
What is it exactly open directory will give me that I cannot do with the regular software in this regard? I am not sure what you mean by a signle shared mailbox and calendar.
@cpragman
Google apps for business was something I was looking into at one point but decided not to use it. Once we grow more I can see us moving over to it but with just maybe 5 people tops having a real e-mail address it seems a little overkill. (I apologize, I omitted that from my original question, i only put in the number of attendees)
@Lincdavis
Fortunately I don't care about whether they can create it themselves or not . And your comment about creating a sharing-only user. Do you mean for every external e-mail I want in a mailing list, I need to create a user for them (with services disabled) and then change mail options to forward to their personal e-mail?
Then go back to groups, create a group that can be e-mailed, and add those users to it?
Thanks

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