[Asterisk-Users] Changing Asterisk Voicemail Storage Location

[Christopher Dobbs]

If a patch is developed that will acomplish this division, I am 
interested in it.
My company is planning on deplying a massive * network with a central 
server providing VM.

This would make the VM server easyer to admin.

--
Christopher Dobbs


Adam Goryachev wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:22, Java Rockx wrote:
>  
>
>>Can anyone tell me how difficult it would be to change the way asterisk stores/retrieves user
>>messages as follows?
>>
>>Currently mailboxes are in 
>>/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/{context}
>>
>>But I need to store messages in a hash to limit the number of directories per context. All mailbox
>>extensions are the user's 10-digit phone number (aka, DID). The parts of a DID are as follows
>>So my hashing would look like this
>>
>>/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/{context}/{npa}/{nxx}/{line}
>>
>>And in the {line} directory we would have the usual Asterisk files/directories for inbox, etc.
>>
>>We're looking at a large number of mailboxes and this would give us a maximum of 10000 mailboxes
>>per directory - which plays nice with the Linux file system.
>>    
>>
>
>You might look at alternative filesystem formats. "Linux file system" is
>not any file system I've heard of. Most likely you are referring to the
>filesystem that you get by default when you do an install and just click
>next without understanding the option each step of the way.
>Specifically, look at reiserfs, it is very good at handling directories
>with large number of files, as frequantly seen in mail servers using
>maildir format etc...
>
>I'm not sure I understand all the details, but reiserfs should be
>equivalent in speed to a DB.... at least, I've frequantly seen it
>referred to in that way back when I used to subscribe to their mailing
>list.
>
>I suppose you might ask the question, is it faster to parse the mailbox
>name in userspace and then look up the correct file, or let the kernel
>parse the name, and find the file for you....
>
>Hope this helps you...
>
>Regards,
>Adam
>
>
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