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> Switched to Windows server (and was blown away by how polished that was, but that's another story.) Have you told this story anywhere else already? I'd love
by jyrkesh 4y ago
> Switched to Windows server (and was blown away by how polished that was, but that's another story.)
Have you told this story anywhere else already? I'd love to read it. In a past life I worked very close to Windows Server, but I mostly selfhost Linux at home now.
What is it mostly identity related? I miss AD sometimes...or maybe storage? The SMB stack is pretty good too.
- bruce511 4y agoI haven't. I had set up the machine with 2 large spindle drives, 2 large SSDs, and a separate SSD for the OS. after booting windows looked at the disk layout and asked me what I planned to do. It suggested some quick options, one of which was exactly what I planned to do (raid the spindle pair, and raid the SSD pair) and one even better (create a volume putting the SSD and spindle together, and then raid that.) Yes thanks I said, and it did everything. By contrast setting up raid on the previous Linux box, albeit 5 years earlier) took days of searching for docs, specific magic incantations on the command line, and lots of rebooting. So yes, I get the freedom thing, but sometimes a computer is just a tool, and I want it to just work.
- michaelmrose 4y agoIf I recall correctly Fedora in the 2003 - 2006 era included an option to set up raid as part of the standard installer. Around the same time frame gnomes disk tool supported actually doing operations like replacing a disk in that array. Even the incantation to do it manually isn't that magic. I'm guessing you could read the manual for the options to mdadm --create in minuted rather than days. If you want to be really fancy zpool create mirror foo mirror bar.