[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

[Brian Capouch]

Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I hope someone isn't going to tell me that the voicemail 
>>
>>directory going away is going to cause Asterisk to fall in a 
>>heap on the floor. 
 >>
>>  Brian Capouch wrote:
>>You never give up on dissing Asterisk, do you, Pococurante?
> 
> 
> This would be acceptable behaviour for you?

An NFS-mounted volume isn't ever going to be as reliable as one mounted 
on the local filesystem.  You are introducing additional points of 
failure both with respect to there now being two hard drives involved, 
as well as an interposed network that can fail in a variety of ways.

So by definition this arrangement isn't going to be as reliable as one 
based on a native filesystem.

And you never have answered the direct question: what do you expect the 
"logical" thing would be to happen if all the sudden an important system 
resource has just gone away?

Regardless of the answer (because a rejoinder to that would then be, "So 
add that behavior into Asterisk, or help the developers do so . . ") my 
point isn't that you are finding--actually looking for--places where 
catastrophic behavior makes Asterisk suffer.

The problem is that you don't ever say, "So what are some reasonable 
things that might be done in this situation;" instead you emit a 
scathing remark ("fall in a heap on the floor") that would indicate 
you've discovered some glaring design flaw that any idiot would have 
known to design around ahead of your "finding" it.

It is not automatically the case that if Asterisk doesn't do something 
you think it should do it means that Asterisk is horribly and glaringly 
flawed.  But that's what you *always* assume, and you always--ALWAYS--do 
so snidely.

Pococurante.

B.

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