Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-27 Thread Mike Diehl
On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:03, Douglas Garstang wrote: > Yes, we'd need it on every single box. We had a dedicated voicemail server > in the first place. I decided to distribute voicemail between all boxes > because the script that I had that copied the phone registrations over to > the voicemail

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-18 Thread Mike Diehl
On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:55, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:40:35AM -0600, Mike Diehl wrote: > > I don't know how big your voicemail system is, but have you considered > > using Unison to syncronize the vm accross all your servers? I'm > > deploying multiple servers with two

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:31:54PM -0500, Aaron Daniel wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > >Other applications can handle it. Don't see why Asterisk can't. Mount the > >nfs volume with the -soft option. Do a 'df -k' and you will see that the > >df command will time out in a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Aaron Daniel
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote: Other applications can handle it. Don't see why Asterisk can't. Mount the nfs volume with the -soft option. Do a 'df -k' and you will see that the df command will time out in a couple of seconds. Why can't Asterisk do the same? Just gonna throw ga

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Douglas Garstang
From: Ira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/17/2006 3:10 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS At 03:44 PM 6/16/2006, you wrote: > > The

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Ira
At 03:44 PM 6/16/2006, you wrote: > The "hanging waiting for NFS volume to become avaiable" is a > classic NFS > situation, hardly limited to your little experiment. Silly question, but how is this different than a hard disk in the local machine crashing or the router dying or even pulling th

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread JR Richardson
>Are you sure that a ro mounted volume won't behave in the same fashion as a rw mounted one when the NFS server is >abruptly shut down? >Have you tried shutting down the NFS server? Does Asterisk recover from this? Doug, I have to say, my system has been working fine, but could not recall if I a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Brian Capouch
JR Richardson wrote: Pococurante! Or Pococurante? Or you're a big fat poco! Damn Brian, I had to look this word up. SYLLABICATION: po·co·cu·ran·te Pronunciation: (pō"kō-koo-ran'tē, -rän'-, -kyoo-; It.pô"kô-kOO-rän'te) ADJECTIVE: Indifferent; apathetic; nonchalant. NOUN: One who does not care; a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Douglas Garstang
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/17/2006 8:04 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS Pococurante! Or Pococurante? Or you're a big fat poco! Damn Brian, I had to look this word up. SYLLABICATION: po·co

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Douglas Garstang
ginal Message- From: Simon Woodhead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/17/2006 1:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS We use Unison Doug and it

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Douglas Garstang
ent: Sat 6/17/2006 1:06 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS Douglas Garstang wrote: > I don't think unison is a workable solution. It doesn't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread JR Richardson
Pococurante! Or Pococurante? Or you're a big fat poco! Damn Brian, I had to look this word up. SYLLABICATION: po·co·cu·ran·te Pronunciation: (pō"kō-koo-ran'tē, -rän'-, -kyoo-; It.pô"kô-kOO-rän'te) ADJECTIVE: Indifferent; apathetic; nonchalant. NOUN: One who does not care; a careless or indifferen

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:40:35AM -0600, Mike Diehl wrote: > I don't know how big your voicemail system is, but have you considered using > Unison to syncronize the vm accross all your servers? I'm deploying multiple > servers with two vm servers, each sync'ed every 5? minutes. If one fails,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Simon Woodhead
ervers to our cluster.Doug.-Original Message- From: Mike Diehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Fri 6/16/2006 9:40 AMTo: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion        Cc:     Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFSI don

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-17 Thread Avi Miller
Douglas Garstang wrote: I don't think unison is a workable solution. It doesn't scale. The network and system load would increase exponentially as we added asterisk servers to our cluster. If you're clustering that many boxes, I'd investigate fibre channel SAN and GFS. That way, each node of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:17:53PM -0600, 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-respon

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Julian Lyndon-Smith
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS Mike, Never heard of Unison... do you have a link to it? Doug. I'm another Mike but we all answer when calle

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
: Fri 6/16/2006 9:40 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS I don't know how big your voicemail system is, but have you considered using Unison to syncronize

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Mike McMullen
- Original Message - From: "Douglas Garstang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:49 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS Mike, Never heard of Unison... do yo

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
Mike, Never heard of Unison... do you have a link to it? Doug. > -Original Message- > From: Mike Diehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:41 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Mike Diehl
I don't know how big your voicemail system is, but have you considered using Unison to syncronize the vm accross all your servers? I'm deploying multiple servers with two vm servers, each sync'ed every 5? minutes. If one fails, the other one should be "good enough." Just a though, Mike On Fr

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Capouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:30 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > >

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 16:14, Fri 16 Jun 06, Douglas Garstang wrote: > CF... > > I tried setting it to 60s, and it delays the same final result. The system > becomes unresponsive, but it just takes a few more seconds to do it. Looks > like it's somehow related to Asterisk polling it's voicemail store every > check

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Capouch
Douglas Garstang wrote: Douglas Garstang wrote: 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. >> Brian Capouch wrote: You never give up on dissing Asterisk, do you, Pococurante? This would be a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
ginal Message- > From: C F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:06 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > I'm curious is this might help: > this is in sip.conf > ;

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread C F
Brian Capouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:40 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > > > I hope someone isn't going to t

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Capouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:40 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > > >

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Capouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:30 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS > > > Douglas Garstang wrote: > >

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Capouch
Douglas Garstang wrote: 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. You never give up on dissing Asterisk, do you, Pococurante? B. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous conten

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Capouch
Douglas Garstang wrote: 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. What do you want it to do? The "hanging waiting for NFS volume to become avaiable" is a c

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Douglas Garstang
ay, 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'

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail with NFS

2006-06-16 Thread Bruce Ferrell
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 sh