Hi Andrew, I think we are more on the same page than you think. Fanless PC and CF are exactly what I am shooting for. However, as far as I know you need a hard drive to run FreePBX. Read only partitions make a lot of sense and I will certainly pursue that further. Not sure if I would need to put Voicemail on a CF if I have a hard drive. I could care less if someones voicemail messages get corrupted during a power outage. All I want is for the phone system to come back up and work again. GUARANTEED!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Kohlsmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:12 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hard drive write cache > > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:36, shadowym wrote: > > Physically locking down the server is not an option. It > will be hung > > on the wall in place of where a traditional PBX would normally go. > > This is a telecom closet NOT a server rack environment. > UPS with auto > > shut down is just one link in the chain. Do you have any further > > information of locking plugs? I have not come across those > before. > > Of course in order for that to make sense I would need > locking plugs on both the server AND UPS end. > > It has to be idiot proof. > > Almost every telco closet I have been in (anything from > 5-person accounting firm to 750 person manufacturing facility > for Honda) has had a telco closet with a lock on the door. > Sometimes this closet was little more than a space under the > stairs to the basement and behind the water heater and 6 > years of records, but the access was physically restricted. > > Also, my Norstar MICS upstairs doesn't have locking plugs. > It's on a UPS that does not notify it of impending doom, and > it comes back up just fine most of the time[1]. My Linux > firewall is under the same constraints and also comes up > fine. Why are you giving such heavy requirements for your > particular application? What's wrong with a readonly / and > RAM drive /var and /tmp? > Store configs and voicemail on a flash drive or even a > journalled filesystem on a hard drive mounted synchronously. > > [1] Ask any Norstar user how often Flash takes a big shit > when it loses power. > And there is no way to notify it. I'd say at least 5-10% of > the time it has some problem, ranging from "stuck" voicemail > to corrupted voicemail to rare (but often enough) occurances > wherein you have to reinitialize the entire Flash voicemail system! > > > Think PBX and/or network appliance not computer server. They are > > idiot proof so it is quite reasonable IMHO to expect the > same from an > > Asterisk server (or in my way of thinking, Asterisk network > appliance). > > I think you're aiming for too high a grade of idiot. Any > standard fanless PC can achieve the kinds of uptimes you want > from your typical NEC Electra Elite or Norstar MICS without > resorting to the kind of circus act you're doing here. > > -A. > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users