[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

[Douglas Garstang]

I'll give this a try, but what happens when someone tries to access their voicemail? Common sense would say that THEN the system will fall apart, which isn't much of a solution.

Doug.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ferrell [mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:26 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS
> 
> 
> you might want to try autofs to drive the nfs functions.  
> it'll make you 
> less susceptable as the filesystem won't be mounted full time
> 
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > I have /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail NFS mounted from 
> another server. Everything is fine, until I simulate an NFS 
> server failure, by shutting down the NFS server process.
> > 
> > At this point, Asterisk becomes almost non-responsive. It 
> won't even process a 'sip show peers' command correctly. It 
> displays a few lines of text, pauses for several seconds, and 
> then displays the rest. When a call comes into the system, 
> Asterisk seems to do nothing for several seconds, and 
> generally acts really sluggish. The phone gives up after 
> several seconds, because Asterisk isn't doing anything.
> > 
> > I have used the soft option with the NFS mount.
> > 
> > I hope someone isn't going to tell me that the voicemail 
> directory going away is going to cause Asterisk to fall in a 
> heap on the floor. We just changed our model from a single, 
> central voicemail server, to a distributed model, to get 
> around some issues. We can't lose ALL pbx functionality just 
> because the voicemail NFS server goes away. That's insane.
> > 
> > Doug.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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