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He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up | |
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| Time: 11:10 EST/16:10 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server (WHS) post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether Linux or Windows is a better home-server platform. I decided to ask a Linux aficionado, Jason Perlow, to provide his take on WHS. Here’s Perlow’s WHS review: For the last 10 years, I’ve been pretty much exclusively reviewing and writing about open-source software. But in my previous lifetime, I was a Windows geek and I spent considerable time at Fortune 100 companies integrating various iterations of Windows Server into their respective environments. I guess like Mr. Spock on Star Trek, I need to return to the home planet on ZDNet to spawn about Windows every decade or so. | ||
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| #1 By 54556 (67.131.75.3) at 12/27/2007 12:06:50 PM |
| Welcome back, awin. Was starting to wonder if you were down for the count. |
| #2 By 89137 (65.255.137.29) at 12/27/2007 12:46:02 PM |
| It is down for the count - it's just still online is all... |
| #3 By 15406 (99.224.112.94) at 12/27/2007 2:53:50 PM |
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Just don't try to backup files to it.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/12/27/1457240.shtml |
| #4 By 60455 (71.12.191.230) at 12/27/2007 5:00:56 PM |
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@3, Actually backups, the main feature supported by WHS, are not the issue, or affected.
Very rare and difficult to reproduce combinations of factors have to be present in order to produce file corruption in files stored, on accessed and edited in WHS - see, http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=348 While rare, a few users among the more than 100,000 testers involved in the BETA, saw similar issues, which were patched via WU and quickly. MS will do the same now. The same type of corruption occurs with far greater regularity on all forms of NAS and File Servers - most especially so when files are edited "on" the host device, or server and they have in fact, occurred far less frequently on WHS than on other devices connected across a NW - most especially true of older wireless networks. Finally, WHS documentation specifically requires that users hard-wire the server to the host NW - NOT wireless. Clients may be wireless, but the WHS must be wired. A great many users with "issues" have made us of wireless connections and use the WHS as a file server only. This practice greatly increases the chances for file corruption. |
| #5 By 54556 (67.131.75.3) at 12/27/2007 6:15:14 PM |
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"The same type of corruption occurs with far greater regularity on all forms of NAS and File Servers "
rotfl. Disk-less and disk-little workstation network architectures have been operated for years, and especially in environments where that type of unreliability is not allowed. As to the alleged wireless involvement, the network transport layer handles error detection, attempted correnction, and higher-level notification if uncorrectable. The applicaiton layer does not know, nor does it need to know, where the transport is hard-wired or wireless. The application should be programmed to appropriatle handle error conditions, regardless of whether the transport layer operates using optics or horse-drawn carriage. |
| #6 By 15406 (99.224.112.94) at 12/27/2007 8:14:53 PM |
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#4: Sorry Ketchum, I don't buy it.
The same type of corruption occurs with far greater regularity on all forms of NAS and File Servers - most especially so when files are edited "on" the host device, or server and they have in fact, occurred far less frequently on WHS than on other devices connected across a NW - most especially true of older wireless networks. Is that right? I work in storage and that's news to me. Sources? Finally, WHS documentation specifically requires that users hard-wire the server to the host NW - NOT wireless. I haven't heard of any widespread file corruption caused by wireless networks. |
| #7 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at 12/27/2007 11:12:38 PM |
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@#3,
You really should read the article... TL |
| #8 By 65179 (221.128.181.13) at 12/28/2007 1:08:55 AM |
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It's happening on files downloaded from the net to which XPSP2 onwards, Windows inserts an Alternate Data Stream (ADS). It's better to turn this behavior off from Group Policy: User Configuration => Administrative Templates => Windows Components => Attachment Manager => Do not preserve zone information in file attachments. This post was edited by consumer4beta on Friday, December 28, 2007 at 01:09. |
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