Need opinion : Tiger Server running on PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphic)?

Dear Gurus,
I have a spare PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphic) with 2GB RAM, and a spare copy of 10.4 Server. Is it reasonable to install Tiger Server into this PowerMac? The computer will serve as a file server for about 20+ user (mostly documents, no video or gigabyte psd file).
The machine meet Tiger minimum system requirement but I need some real life opinion of whether this is okay, or just a bad idea (system will sluggish, etc, etc.)
TIA

Server doing File Sharing is an I/O problem, not a compute problem. I have run Server 10.3 on a Beige G3 \[with a SCSI RAID added].
You need fast Hard Drives and a fast (preferably Gigabit Ethernet) connection to the workstations to get "near Hard Drive" performance.

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