Oct. 25, 2009
9:43 p.m.
It's not so much that I *require* the slave to shut down, more that I'm not sure how well I'll be able to ensure that it's up all the time, and I'm trying to understand the implications of that. My basic impression is that it's not really going to work, unfortunately.
There is a significant difference between "not able to ensure that it is up all the time", and "it is down most of the time, and only up once a day for a short period of time". Regular and irregular short downtimes are no problem at all. When the slave comes back, it will pick up pending work. Longer scheduled downtimes (e.g. for vacations) are acceptable. Only turning on the slave occasionally makes it useless. Regards, Martin