Joseph, I can concur with Darrick says, from a practical sense as well. I treat it like a toaster... I pull the plug all the time on test boxes. I probably have not done so while a vm was being captured, but I've never seen a problem with fs consistency on restart.
In reality, the configuration will change very infrequently in relation to the probability of a power loss at the same time. You could also put a small UPS on the device. With the low power consumption, it could probably keep it running (probably doing nothing) for an extended period. Also could probably find a driver for the UPS port to get the power-fail notice from the UPS and do a clean shutdown. This paragraph seems like overkill to me, however (at least until I get bit). I run a cron job which tars up the kd and logs once a day, and scp's the tarball to a remote box. That way, if one of the devices does go belly up. I can deploy a new one pretty quickly with no loss of information. Hope this helps, Ron Byer Jr. NetWeave Integrated Solutions, Inc. +1.732.786.8830 x120 -----Original Message----- From: Darrick Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:48 PM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] 0.6.1 Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I don't see the kd getting that much use that would make that an issue. Most >> of the traffic that it sees (voicemails) will still take 7-10 years to wear >> out the CF card. > > Ron, > With your setup, what happens if the power is disrupted w/o a clean shutdown? > Will the system simply restart and continue, I assume the volume with the > config is susceptible to corruption, or is that handled gracefully? Loosing vm's > is not an issue for me, but needing manual intervention on the pbx is. Joseph, Both the ASTKD and ASTURW (key disk and unionfs) partitions are checked by fsck at boot time. As long as there are no serious problems, no manual intervention is required. If there are serious disk problems you may need to do manual intervention, but this is not different than what you would see with other distributions and storage systems. In most cases, there are no problems although clean shutdowns are preferred. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com Small Business IT Specialists ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1740 - Release Date: 10/22/2008 7:24 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
