[Asterisk-Users] Embedded Asterisk System (was QoS Router/Software Suggestions)

[JB Hewit]

Then you could export CDR to an external database on another machine.

Realisitcally though, for the price of a microdrive you 'mose well buy
a cheap ide hdd.

It's a cost way up, you can't have too much of an underpowered machine
otherwise you won't make many phone calls.


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:46:17 -0400, Scott Lykens <slykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:36:09 -0700, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
> 
> > When Bering boots it loads everything into a RAM based filesystem.  Anyone
> > see any drawbacks in running an * system using a RAM based file system and
> > booting from CF?  If you needed additional capacity for VM you could add an
> > IDE drive.  The benefits to not using an IDE drive would mean one less
> > mechanical device prone to failure.
> 
> You'll want some way to keep CDR records if you need them. I wouldn't
> replace the IDE drive for VM with a CF as you might run into a CF
> failure to due excessive writes per sector. It seems CFs are good for
> something on the order of 10k writes per sector, a number that might
> be deceptively easy to achieve.
> 
> Now, booting from CF and writing CDR back once (or a few times) per
> day might be a worthwhile solution while using a remote * or disk for
> VM. Of course an IBM 1 GB Microdrive is on the order of $175 or so and
> would provide the ability to run the OS, * and VM all from disk
> without worry or kludge.
> 
> sl
> 
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