Coda is not doing this - it builds instead on a limited set of
carefully-administered-together servers and an unlimited set of freely
(un)administered clients (like workstations).
Hi Rune and thank you for your answer.
Ok, so our initial idea is impossible to realize with Coda.
I try to esplain some other of our ideas in detail; escuse me if I
insist but we can't find anything suitable, so we are trying to adapt
something that already exists, since we doesn't have endless resources
and time :) :
- we would make servers only with a fraction of office's computers (is 8
the highest value with coda?)
- office's computer will never be turned off but only go to sleep and
they could be waked up with Wake up On Lan
- we would manage sleep of the office's computer in a distributed way
with a costum app, and servers would go to sleep all togheter only when
no other "client" is logged in to his desktop
- when the whole office is in sleep and a client is waked up it will
wake up all the servers with a Wake up On Lan
- if the SCM crashes another server will take is place and the server
and client daemons restarted in this way:
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2001/3979.html
or this: http://coda.wikidev.net/What_if_the_SCM_dies (will it work?)
Failures shouldn't be so common :)
Bye,
Francesco
