[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and flash disks

[sipresearcher VOIP]

We had an experience with asterisk in a 512 MB IDE Compact Flash card. It uses nearly 400 MB of storage with a minimum installation of Linux, and 2.6.10 Kernel. I has web access with AMP Portal with needed modules as apache, php, etc. But the size can be less. It works fine. You can search about embedded asterisk. There are quite doc on the web.
 
Regards.
 
Sip Researcher

Paul Hewlett <paul at cottonpickinminds.co.za> wrote:
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 15:49, Angus Comber wrote:
> Hello
>
> I see it is possible to buy Flash Disks up to 4GB now. Has anyone any
> experience of building an Asterisk system with a flash disk as the only
> storage device? Any brands you recommend? Is 2 or 4GB enough for an
> Asterisk installation? Typically how many MB is required for voicemail
> recording files for say a 10 user system? What about voicemail - I suppose
> files could be emailed and deleted immediately?

I have been using flash-based asterisk and it works fine as long as you are 
careful about the maker - SanDisk did not work properly, we currently use the 
RiData flash disk and are happy with it. I have a Kingston Tech flash disk 
that was flaky and finally failed yesterday.

They are not the fastest - running hdparm -tT on them reveals a speed of 2Mb/s 
which is about a third of the speed of 100Mbits ethernet. For call recording 
I usually add an IDE hard drive and make sure that most filesystems 
(e.g. /var,/tmp..) are loaded into a RAM disk

Paul Hewlett


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