[Asterisk-bsd] Diskless Asterisk Server

[Richard Neese]

asterisk has not been tested on 8.0  and we are just testing on 7.0.


On Wednesday 09 April 2008 14:02:46 Gerald A wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> On 4/6/08, Frank Griffith <glassdude45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but I
> > did loads of experimenting with diskless setup this
> > past week. Getting past all the outdates docs, typos
> > and bad information was difficult, but this weekend I
> > got the diskless client to boot and got some of the
> > advanced configuration done with it. And I even got it
> > to work with 8.0-CURRENT.
>
> I'm actually very interested in this work, as I did have a working setup at
> one time, but have been thinking about going back and setting this up
> again.
>
> > Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless
> > machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough left
> > after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so I'm
> > making do with an older machine that has lost use of
> > it's hard drive.
> >
> > Can anyone offer me some pointers on how I could
> > advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone
> > system but the thought of having to buy hard drives
> > every few years is starting to make me think, who
> > needs them when the diskless process could take their place.
>
> There are two things that you need to consider.
> First is configuration. Diskless, in one way or another, means that
> you will only
> have scarce local storage. I used to use floppies for this, as they were
> cheap easy to deploy. Nowadays I'd think about USB sticks. You woldn't need
> much for configs, considering that 512MB seems to be the smallest they are
> selling now.
>
> The other thing is things generated from processes, like logfiles and
> voicemail and CDR's. If these aren't important,  then you can even forgo
> them.  You might want them, and someone else mentioned a database, but you
> could even do it with a network mount of some sort. I used NFS in my
> deployments, but SAMBA is also an option nowadays (if locking can be done
> properly).
>
> I'd love to help/contribute and test. Let me know if you'd like to
> co-ordinate efforts.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald.
>
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