asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Asterisk from flash with dynamic voicemail enable/disable?

I would like to create a rock solid asterisk server that comes up no 
matter what.

Ofcourse I can consider hardware raid1 but.... for the cost of a hardware 
raid controller I can also buy a 2GB compact flash card that doesn't 
produce any heat or noise and is friendly to the electricity bill and 
our environment :)

2GB is more than sufficient for a linux distro and an * installation but 
512 Mb may not be enough for voicemail for 40 users. For this reason I am 
considering to use a small (notebook) harddrive but this will create 
another point of failure. (Alternatively I can consider an NFS share)

Is there any way to make asterisk automatically disable all voicemail but 
continue running if there is any problem with the voicemail partition, 
disk or NFS share?

Thanks for any hints / tips etc.

You *could* write a script to check the voicemail partition and slap
this in a cronjob.  If it finds a problem, then have it switch out your
extensions.conf with one that is the exact same except it plays a
"voicemail is currently unavailable"-type message when you either try
to
check your vmail or are redirected to it.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:13:33 +0100 (CET)
Remco Barende <asterisk@barendse.to> wrote:
> I would like to create a rock solid asterisk server that comes up no 
> matter what.
> 
> Ofcourse I can consider hardware raid1 but.... for the cost of a
hardware 
> raid controller I can also buy a 2GB compact flash card that doesn't 
> produce any heat or noise and is friendly to the electricity bill and 
> our environment :)
> 
> 2GB is more than sufficient for a linux distro and an * installation
but 
> 512 Mb may not be enough for voicemail for 40 users. For this reason I
am 
> considering to use a small (notebook) harddrive but this will create 
> another point of failure. (Alternatively I can consider an NFS share)
> 
> Is there any way to make asterisk automatically disable all voicemail
but 
> continue running if there is any problem with the voicemail partition,
> disk or NFS share?
> 
> Thanks for any hints / tips etc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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