[Asterisk-Users] Re: 911 and lawsuits

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> > You can stash Asterisk+Linux on a 64Mb flash. Next question please?
> > (and in fact, I think you should do that for a production install)
> 
> Anyone willing to share there experiences with this? I like 
> the idea but would
> love to get some of the details of how to make it work and 
> manage it. Would this
> also make the system restart faster?

We run our routers this way, but I haven't tried asterisk on it yet.
Technically there should be no problem. There are a few things you want to
consider:

- compactflashcards are basically IDE devices, so Linux will see them as
harddrives. Writing to them is a costly process so you will want a
commit/rollback type setup for all files. Just stash your root-fs in a
ramdrive and compress it to disk only when needed. This also ensures you get
a working system back when you reboot after making some messed-up changes
(crashes ?)

- compactflashcards are generally slow devices, but if you load a ramdisk
from the drive and use that to work with, the delay is not a problem.

If we get more stock flashcards I'll try a setup and report :)

Florian