[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Capouch [mailto:brianc at palaver.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:30 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS
> 
> 
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> What do you want it to do?
> 
> The "hanging waiting for NFS volume to become avaiable" is a 
> classic NFS 
> situation, hardly limited to your little experiment.
> 
> There are NFS mount options that stop the hang, but they 
> won't correct 
> the fact that your voicemail store isn't there.

What do I want what to do?

I don't see why Asterisk should hang. As I said, I mounted the NFS share with the 'soft' option and a timeout of 5 seconds. When I do a 'df -k' command, the result hangs for 5s or so and then returns. Asterisk doesn't seem to behave in the same way. Considering it's a function of the mount command, you'd think it would be transparent to Asterisk.

Yes... soft causes it not to hang.... for everything else except Asterisk.... I don't care if the voicemail store goes away. I do care if the voicemail store going away causes all calls across the entire system to fail.

Doug.