<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I was inspired by astlinux, then I bult my one with Gentoo (I don't like to use uclib)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't like to use ram disk because is a way to waste memory, I prefer to create tmpfs where mount relative rw directory,</DIV><DIV>(the rc and init.d scripts of astlinux can be very useful to understand how to do it), this is a map of a generic mount:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (ro,nogrpid)</DIV><DIV>none on /proc type proc (rw)</DIV><DIV>none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)</DIV><DIV>none on /var type tmpfs (rw)</DIV><DIV>none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)</DIV><DIV>none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)</DIV><DIV>none on /sys type sysfs (rw)</DIV><DIV>/dev/hda2 on /mnt/opt type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)</DIV><DIV>192.168.10.80:/mnt/backup01/vm on /mnt/vm type nfs (rw,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,lock,proto=udp,addr=192.168.10.80)</DIV><DIV>none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)</DIV><DIV>/dev/sda2 on /mnt/cf type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as you see the hda1 is the system and is ro only, the back up are made on a nfs mount</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>this is the total memoy used by a pbx with 60 user registered</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> total used free shared buffers cached</DIV><DIV>Mem: 512364 49584 462780 0 1788 28676</DIV><DIV>-/+ buffers/cache: 19120 493244</DIV><DIV>Swap: 0 0 0</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and these are the active process</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND</DIV><DIV> 1 ? S 0:00 init </DIV><DIV> 2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0]</DIV><DIV> 3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]</DIV><DIV> 4 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]</DIV><DIV> 5 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]</DIV><DIV> 6 ? S< 0:00 [kthread]</DIV><DIV> 8 ? S< 0:02 \_ [kblockd/0]</DIV><DIV> 9 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kacpid]</DIV><DIV> 88 ? S< 0:00 \_ [khubd]</DIV><DIV> 131 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush]</DIV><DIV> 132 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush]</DIV><DIV> 134 ? S< 0:00 \_ [aio/0]</DIV><DIV> 719 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kseriod]</DIV><DIV> 776 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ata/0]</DIV><DIV> 808 ? S< 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_0]</DIV><DIV> 809 ? S< 0:00 \_ [usb-storage]</DIV><DIV> 1154 ? S< 0:00 \_ [nfsd4]</DIV><DIV> 1160 ? S< 0:00 \_ [rpciod/0]</DIV><DIV> 133 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0]</DIV><DIV> 1098 ? Ss 0:04 /sbin/syslogd -s 1024 -m 60 -b 2</DIV><DIV> 1106 ? Ss 0:00 crond</DIV><DIV> 1139 ? Ss 0:00 portmap</DIV><DIV> 1155 ? S 0:00 [nfsd]</DIV><DIV> 1156 ? S 0:00 [nfsd]</DIV><DIV> 1157 ? S 0:00 [nfsd]</DIV><DIV> 1158 ? S 0:00 [nfsd]</DIV><DIV> 1159 ? S 0:00 [lockd]</DIV><DIV> 1163 ? Ss 0:00 mountd</DIV><DIV> 1180 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd -g</DIV><DIV> 1201 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd</DIV><DIV> 4178 ? Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: root@pts/0</DIV><DIV> 4184 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ -bash</DIV><DIV> 4306 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ ps axf</DIV><DIV> 1213 ? Ss 0:00 inetd</DIV><DIV> 1339 ? Ss 0:00 mini_httpd -C /etc/mini_httpd.conf</DIV><DIV> 1347 ? Ss 0:00 mini_httpd -C /tmp/etc/mini_httpd-http.conf</DIV><DIV> 1358 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty -L 19200 /dev/tty1 linux</DIV><DIV>27818 ? S 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/safe_voix</DIV><DIV>27824 ? Sl 7:05 \_ /usr/sbin/asterisk -p -c</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The only problem problem using this method is that make upgrade is a bit complicated, the ram disk is more easy because you have just to replace the disk image.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>For now all of the customer upgrade are made replacing on the site the cf disk.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Luciano<BR><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Il giorno 12/set/07, alle ore 14:42, Juan Sandro ha scritto:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR><BR>> From: <A href="mailto:l.vaccarella@voix.it">l.vaccarella@voix.it</A><BR>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:46:19 +0200<BR>> To: <A href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</A><BR>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Flash IDE<BR>> <BR>> My experience in 4 years and about 200 intallations of Flash based <BR>> systems is of about 98% reliability.<BR>> <BR>> But you have to be carefully on using Industrial grade Flash chip, <BR>> and making it working in the right way as said by Sergey.<BR>> <BR>> We have big server flash based too, and they work without problems.<BR> <BR> Hi<BR> <BR> Do you have any more details... what Distro? 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