I exposed some quick ideas about this in this very same thread a couple of months ago:
> > This said, I continue to think (I can be wrong) that there really is a > need for a simple and very light slim server software (for NAS or very > small silent pc) and a more powerfull server software for real > dedicated PC. > > An interesting design could be to split the server in two. > > (SFS) Small footprint server (stream to SB, browse music, basic data > handling and optional bulk updates capabilities, small web > capabilities) > > (FFS) Fullsize footprint server (running on dedicated SS Pc or on a > users computer, doing the web server hard job, full maintenance > options, real time DSP streaming, etc) > > Someone could put SFS and FFS on a dedicated server or SFS on a small > server or NAS and FFS on the user's computer. The SFS and FFS could > synchronize data with a simple process or share the same database file > (Berkeley DB database file? they handle lock nicely) > > The whole things sounds rather complicated but -at least on a forum > post- sounds quite nice... > -- vrobin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
