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.
Doug. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Ferrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:26 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > you might want to try autofs to drive the nfs functions. > it'll make you > less susceptable as the filesystem won't be mounted full time > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > I have /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail NFS mounted from > another server. Everything is fine, until I simulate an NFS > server failure, by shutting down the NFS server process. > > > > At this point, Asterisk becomes almost non-responsive. It > won't even process a 'sip show peers' command correctly. It > displays a few lines of text, pauses for several seconds, and > then displays the rest. When a call comes into the system, > Asterisk seems to do nothing for several seconds, and > generally acts really sluggish. The phone gives up after > several seconds, because Asterisk isn't doing anything. > > > > I have used the soft option with the NFS mount. > > > > 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. We just changed our model from a single, > central voicemail server, to a distributed model, to get > around some issues. We can't lose ALL pbx functionality just > because the voicemail NFS server goes away. That's insane. > > > > Doug. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --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 > > > > -- > One day at a time, one second if that's what it takes > > _______________________________________________ > --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 > _______________________________________________ --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
