[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Compact PCI platform

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> > Please, don't store your dynamic sound files (voicemail) on CF. You 
> > can only write to CF so many times, so the card may start suffering 
> > failures. You can easily add a small harddrive or more 
> memory and ramdisk software.
> 
> If people really want to use CF, you could store a kernel and 
> initrd on it and boot your system into a ramdisk.  Most of 
> the single-floppy Linux router distros work like that.  This 
> way, you're only reading from the CF once per boot (and 
> barely writing at all).

Correct. There are some scripts around on the net that do this (including
commit/rollback functionality). I may have mentioned this before - one of my
collegues has written a paper on this including implementation for routers
etc. Can be adapted for Asterisk. Paper is dutch though :-)

> You would have to come up with a way to make storage of your 
> voicemail persistent, but this could be done by using the 
> existing feature of e-mailing the message...

Or even some form of remote disk (NFS ?)

Florian