[Asterisk-Users] Booting * from CF

[bladerunner]

i work myself on developing such an "embedded" asterisk. there is no major 
problem, as long as you are careful when stripping out the "underwood" of the 
core system.

my system boots of flash, loads /etc & /var into ramdisk, so minimal write 
cycles are wasted for configuration changes & voicemail etc. this data is 
wrote back only on user demand, voicemail is set up to mail the sound files 
immediately (and there is a nice cron job for deleting and renaming the 
soundfiles after 5 or so days... i think i found the bash-script somewhere on 
voip-info.org). of course, in case of power failure you've got some problems, 
when those precious voicemails are gone...

system based on gentoo linux, stripped out whole docs, gcc, kernel sources, 
unused programs & libs. setup on 256 MB flashdisk, but would advice to use a 
512 card. sys running on a p4 at this time, will be migrated to some via eden 
- microboard without hd & fan.

kind regards,

michael

Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 15:12 schrieb Kelly Griffin:
> Just remember that CF cards have a limited life as far as read/write cycles
> are concerned.  Transcend says that their CF can handle 1,000,000
> program/erase cycles before failure.  I think, in practical experience,
> that this is way high.  My experience is between 50K and 200K.
>
> ---
> Kelly D Griffin
> Network Engineer
> Tantella Wireless
> http://tantella.com
> 479.273.9992 Voice
> 479.464.8998 Fax
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andy Powell
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:32 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Booting * from CF
>
> On 02/01/2005 at 11:21 Michael Graves wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I've read J.R. Richardson's paper "Create an Embedded Asterisk Server"
> >which outlines making a Debian server that boots from a compressed disc
> >image on a CF card. I'm really interested in this as I want my * server
> >to be more like an appliance than a PC. However, the paper is only an
> >outline and some of the processes of pruning the installation down to a
> >minimum are beyond my Linux skills.
>
> http://www.automated.it/asterisk/asterisk-cf.htm
>
> >That being the case, and CF cards being bigger and cheaper every month,
> >does anyone have an experience building a server that simply boots from
> >a 512 MB or 1 GB CF card? Is that big enough?
>
>  It really depends on what you want to do, are you thinking of storing
> voicemail on the CF? The
> above link is to install onto a 64mb CF card (can be used on bigger cards
> too if required)
>
>
> Andy
>
>
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