[Asterisk-Users] Changing Asterisk Voicemail Storage Location

[Java Rockx]

I GREPed the Asterisk 1.0.2 source code last night and only found a few references to
AST_SPOOL_DIR which indicates that a patch would be rather easy.

So I'll try to do this now and share the patch. I'm thinking of something like an option in the
Makefile called DID_HASHING, which will enable this, otherwise the current spool storage system
will be used.

I'll keep you posted.

Regards,
Paul

--- Christopher Dobbs <crdobbs at eracew.net> wrote:

> 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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