asterisk users - Jul 2006 - performance & reliabulity of asterisk voicemail using odbc storage

Hello all,

Newbie here, been searching the net to follow the development and feedback
on the 1.2 release feature with using an odbc storage for storing the
voicemail messages etc.? Have many people implemented/tried this? Any
feedback? Is this better than using a clustered file system such as GFS or
PVFS etc? I was going to implement the storage using GFS but if I can do it
reliably with storing them in a database then maybe it's better? I don't
know much about storage or databases so not sure if storing in a clustered
database which is connected to a SAN via high-performance HBAs is better
than using a clustered file system. 

Any comments about all of this vis-?-vis reliability of the implementation
of odbc storage feature in asterisk + comments about DB storage better/worse
than a clustered file-system would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you all,
\R

Hi, RR:

Asterisk 1.2.1 with listed in 
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=5756
patch have some problems with voicemail storage, but that problems 
already fixed in the more newer version.
I'll advice you to try using 1.2.9.1 version with the same patch that
I'd applied to it (see http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=7451 )

I guess that other voicemail DB storage configuration is known for you.

Regards,
Dmitry V.Furmanov

> Hello all,
> 
> Newbie here, been searching the net to follow the development and feedback
> on the 1.2 release feature with using an odbc storage for storing the
> voicemail messages etc.? Have many people implemented/tried this? Any
> feedback? Is this better than using a clustered file system such as GFS or
> PVFS etc? I was going to implement the storage using GFS but if I can do it
> reliably with storing them in a database then maybe it's better? I
don't
> know much about storage or databases so not sure if storing in a clustered
> database which is connected to a SAN via high-performance HBAs is better
> than using a clustered file system. 
> 
> Any comments about all of this vis-?-vis reliability of the implementation
> of odbc storage feature in asterisk + comments about DB storage
better/worse
> than a clustered file-system would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thank you all,
> \R
> 
> 
> 
> 
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