Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical and historical reasons

Re:Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical ... by tankenmate on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:04PM (#12571661)

Actually the underlying interfaces are for the largest part sane; and what's more are much easier configure from the command line (and use git or whatever source control, or devops tools). The only area where the Linux side is not easier is for first time or very occasional users who want an easy GUI with native bling to configure things with.

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Re:Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical ... by user5994461 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @04:09PM (#12577157)

I disagree on the sane part.

Make a simple search on google on "how to resize a partition on linux" and you get ten tutorials, all of which give different steps, none of which work.

There are at least 7 different tools for managing disks on linux most of which vary by distribution and version: fdisk, mkfs, partx, parted, growpart, mdraid, dmcrypt...

Little story: The auto extending of partitions on boot (i.e. a critical thing in cloud environment) has been broken in debian stable for more than 6 months.

It's calling "growpart" that is calling other tools, one of which is "partx". Some flags are changing between versions and it breaks the whole toolchain, unless all software versions are carefully selected.

We could continue on why do some of the tools only accept cylinder and block counts as size??? or why is gparted a terrible GUI for managing disks.

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Re:Linux RAID is different from Windows for sound technical ... by brazzledazzle on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:46PM (#12572305)

There isn't much, if anything, you can't configure from PowerShell these days. Microsoft even has versions of Windows Server without a GUI at all.

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