Re: Re: Shares on sleeping MacOS X machines

Thanks, Jay, for that detailed statement.
 
>   I think the real solution is better power management on the host
>   machine.  If you want the machine really truly asleep, it should be
>   asleep and it should be fairly hard to wake.  If all you want it
>   something that will go into a low-power mode, you really just want a
>   highly efficient machine that is capable of shutting disks down and
>   idling the processor back-- features found in most modern laptops.

Yes, you are right, better power management is the real solution.
Unfortunately we do not have any Macs, including the PowerBooks, which have
this efficient power management, and it doesn't look like Apple is doing
development in the area of low power servers.
As I do not have a spare PowerBook, I don't plan to purchase one just to use
it as a fileserver. Even a secondhand PowerBook is much to expensive for
that job. I'm investigating in an ITX  system with a VIA C3 processor. Well
it is not a Mac but for a low power, silent, headless server, that looks
like the better alternative.

Peter