[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.

We've just tried the same thing, but with a samba server. Shut down the samba server, and Asterisk stops processing calls. Actually, this time the phones will fail over to the next asterisk box. However, if all asterisk boxes are pointing to the same samba server, then failover from one asterisk box to another isn't going to help at all.

So... Asterisk responds to a samba failure in the same way as an NFS failure.

Looks like it's time to start playing with rsync...