Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-09 Thread Erick Perez
Jeremy, Cohen, Kris, thanks to all of you.   Indeed after reading the Sandisk paper it shed a lot of light on this matter. The whole idea is to have a large scale system with no moving parts (we call a large system something with 250 users, at least down here ;-)  )   the whole idea is for a custo

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Jeremy McNamara wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > H, I'm not sure that this is exactly the data you're after. You're looking for the ammounts of writes for the disk block that gets the most writes. E.g: for a standard ext3 filesystem, the journal area would probably have very frequent writes,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Jeremy McNamara
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > H, I'm not sure that this is exactly the data you're after. You're looking for the ammounts of writes for the disk block that gets the most writes. E.g: for a standard ext3 filesystem, the journal area would probably have very frequent writes, whereas most of the sys

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:10:34PM -0500, Erick Perez wrote: > I understand Jeremy and Kris point of view (BTW Kris, astlinux rocks!!) > > However the main question was not aswered (or i didn't get it, did I ?) > > If I use a Disk on Module that has 2million hours MTBF and a Read/Write > lifecycl

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Erick Perez
I understand Jeremy and Kris point of view (BTW Kris, astlinux rocks!!)   However the main question was not aswered (or i didn't get it, did I ?)   If I use a Disk on Module that has 2million hours MTBF and a Read/Write lifecycle of 2million times, then, How many days/weeks/months/years will take t

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Michael Graves
Let me chime on on Astlinux and my personal experience. I have used Astlinux in the following installations: 1) boot from CF on VIA platform, store config settings on USB key drive 2) boot from CD on P3-800, store config settings on USB key drive 3) boot from CF on Soekris Net4801, store co

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-08 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:10:34PM -0500, Erick Perez wrote: >Example: if I setup system XYZ with asterisk, then load this magical >utility/procedure that counts how many writes the filesystem has done >to / or to /,/tmp,/var and after 24 hours the utility/procedure says: >10thousan

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-06 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Erick, Or Just use AstLinux which kind of does what Jeremy described :) http://www.astlinux.org P.S. - I am the creator of AstLinux -- Kristian Kielhofner Sorry to reply to my own post, but there seems to have been some confusion in what I said here.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-06 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Jeremy McNamara wrote: Erick Perez wrote: Hi, Im doing some research for Disk on a Module (DOM) with asterisk realtime. To have no moving parts for a special project, I know I can use 3.5 or 2.5 HDDs but DOMs sound interesting. Does someone have working experience with this? Basically the A

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-06 Thread Jeremy McNamara
Erick Perez wrote: Hi, Im doing some research for Disk on a Module (DOM) with asterisk realtime. To have no moving parts for a special project, I know I can use 3.5 or 2.5 HDDs but DOMs sound interesting. Does someone have working experience with this? Basically the Asterisk Realtime will be

[asterisk-users] Asterisk RT on Disk On Module Performance and Durability

2006-10-06 Thread Erick Perez
Hi, Im doing some research for Disk on a Module (DOM) with asterisk realtime. To have no moving parts for a special project, I know I can use 3.5 or 2.5 HDDs but DOMs sound interesting.   Does someone have working experience with this? Basically the Asterisk Realtime will be stored in MySQL and the