Add a usb drive?

[ehjay]

I was thinking it would be nice to throw a usb drive onto the plug for storing voicemail. Maybe just a thumbdrive would do.  That way I don't have to worry about losing voicemail on a power outage with the newer ramdisk PlugPbx setup.  Would that be an easy thing to add?  Maybe all of /var/spool/asterisk could be mounted on a usb drive.

ehjay

[invictive]

what about storing voicemail on the built in NAND flash?

[PlugPBX Admin]

Sure just create a mount for it and perhaps setup a mount bind at start-up via a script. Easily done.

Current version would write it to SD card full time.

This new version will into RAM disk and then that would be written to SD during sync or shutdown.

You can hack it however you like. Someone could write a 'script' to look for a USB thumb drive and use that as persist storage. Sky is the limit.

[syadnom]

I would actually suggest not writing voicemails to flash as you probably get a few each day and it will wear on the flash devices.  freepbx supports sending voicemails to imap, maybe look into that.

I have successfully pushed voicemail to me gmail account.  If your internet connection is slow this might not be a good idea but a lot of people dont have onsite email servers..

[PlugPBX Admin]

The Flashybrid version of PlugPBX coming out uses a RAM disk for all writes, thereby removing all writes to flash disk unless a user triggers an 'save all' type command. This is addressed on our next release. Its also why we use $12-15 SD memory cards instead of the internal NAND banks on the SheevaPlug, so if bad things happen, you are out $15 dollars and not $99+ for a new SheevaPlug.

Next version will have this setup, but you can apply the feature now, its documented at length in our DEV forums. Cheers!