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

[Steve Edwards]

What about "syslogging" the CDR's?

You can set the "loghost" via DHCP on boot.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, JB Hewit wrote:

> 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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