On 4/13/2011 5:50 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
I can't think of anything that has been a problem with 64-bit win2003/2008 as production servers and I sort of like the way you can decide after-the-fact that you want to convert a disk to software raid.
Where the operative part of the bazillion step process is copy the data to the new device while running from a rescue CD, then making it bootable. This isn't really specific to CentOS - but on Windows (server versions) it is a mouse click to make a file system dynamic and then another one or two to add a mirror - with the system still running. Or you could use a few command line commands instead.
Oh please don't tell the lads how great the gui and its backend are. You will see the hordes leave for Windows 200X Server!
The GUI-ness isn't the point here. As I mentioned, you can use a command line in windows too. The point is that the underlying filesystem/raid has functionality that Linux versions lack and it turns out to be useful when you haven't done your planning well and don't want to be down for a while fixing it. I'd like to see even a rough approximation of this capability in Centos, like SME-server's ability to install on a 'broken' raid where you can add/sync the mirror later (but as an option, not your only choice...).