[Asterisk-Users] Hard drive write cache

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:28:57PM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> 
> How about having the asterisk config on CF or USB drives and the OS,  
> Asterisk on a Linux LiveCD.  That way you can mail out PBX upgrades  
> to the customer they pop it into the CD drive and reboot. 

Actually, the minute they pop out the CD drive, the system stops
working. Unless the system runs completely from RAM.

> Config  
> for DHCP boot,  /etc/asterisk (or /etc entirely) on a USB dongle  
> would work great.

It means that every small config change will have to require a reboot.
And an attented one. No remote upgrades.

Also note that separating code from config is not as trivial as it
sounds. For instance, much of extensions.conf is actually code, and
should belong under /usr/share on such a system (using #include).

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