[Asterisk-Dev] Voicemail locking

[Marc Olivier Chouinard]

Asterisk as a default shouldn't be database driven from external 
sources.  But it should also have db support as a complement.

Now Maildir like brian said is a nice format since it already being 
proven by qmail in extreamly huge deployment, and also could be very 
easy to implement.

The only think I dlike, is that the voicemail does not rely on the order 
base on the filename (well, not like it does rightnow).  I should beable 
to delete a file, or just create a file in the folder and that all I 
need to do, not care about finding a unique filename (since it should 
already be unique in the first place.

Marc O.

The base of asterisk shouldn't rely on too much of other complex than 
his own.

Having maildir system can scale alot, and alot more easily and require 
alot less complexity, and can work without relying on alot of different 
applications and layer of complexity

A database system should be a complement to the file system version.  
But we need a good filesystem base voicemail in the first place.

Marc O


Derek Smithies wrote:

>Brian,
> why do you not like the option of a database ?
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>A database nicely solves the locking issues, and ensures that each entry 
>is unique. Most database have systems for dealing with binary blocks of 
>data.
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>Derek.
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>On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Brian West wrote:
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>>Might work for some but I don't like that option at all...
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>>On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
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>>>Why not dump voicemail into a database?    Then one can put an  
>>>imap, web or whatever front-end on without much trouble.
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