I asked this question in the ZFS forum, but I'm starting to think that this is more of a general question. So here goes: I have a media fileserver running with Windows XP at the moment, but I would like to change to OpenSolaris ZFS because of the safeguards, since I lost a bunch of HD movies a few weeks ago - not because of a bad drive, but a drive cable that had slipped partly out of the port! Any half decent system should have catched that error and not tried to keep writing to those drives. Grrrr....
But what makes this project stand out from the regular stuff is that I only use the media file server a couple of hours 3-4 nights a week, watching movies in the home theater or on the bedroom flatscreen. Or when copying new stuff to it. So is it possible to make OpenSolaris go into S3 sleep to avoid using a lot of watts running it 24/7? Or am I thinking too much like Windows here? Would the easiest solution be to shut down the computer and boot it up when it's needed? I suppose OpenSolaris doesn't need the two minutes of boot time before it's completely useable that Windows does, right? But can shutdown be done with automation, like pressing the power button? This system needs to be controlled from my main server, which runs Girder and can send messages through the network and even turn on and off buttons with a Phidget board. All this is not only because I'm cheap (I am that...) and want to save power and drive life by not running this system 24/7, but more because we are running a very environmentally friendly house here - heat exchanger, firewood from our own lot, a car converted to LPG instead of gasoline and so on. Thanks in advance! Mastiff - Managing director of The Cinema Inferno This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
