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CardJoe · 12th Mar 2008, 08:54

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03...d_until_june/1

A fix for a critical data-guzzling bug in Windows Home Server won't be made available until June 2008, a full six months after the problem was brought to Microsoft's attention.

Cthippo · 12th Mar 2008, 09:00

Meanwhile, my WinME based server contines to chug along without any issies whatsoever. How did they manage to screw this up so royally?

WildTangent · 12th Mar 2008, 09:09

This is absolutely ridiculous. Glad I'm using Ubuntu on my file server.

Woodstock · 12th Mar 2008, 09:32

and they wonder why linux is starting to get a larger user base

cjoyce1980 · 12th Mar 2008, 09:38

WinXP Pro x64 all the way

BlackMage23 · 12th Mar 2008, 09:52

Win2003 Enterprise X64 cheesecake

jsheff · 12th Mar 2008, 10:11

I've been using WHS for about 4 months now, and I got caught out by the bug before it came to light. Lost around 1TB of data. Pretty gutting to say the least. Thakfully, none of it was personal data that wasn't copied somewhere else, like my photos or files. Was a bitch to rip all my CDs and DVDs back to the server again, but now I understand the problem I haven't caught the bug again. Basically, if you're going to use the uTorrent add-in, don't download to a server shared folder. It's to do with WHS's storage balancing system basically trying to balance a file that's already open or being edited (i.e. an unfinished torrent, a word document being saved at the time of balancing, tagging a folder of mp3s, etc). I have my uTorrent set to download to an external drive NOT added to the storage pool, meaning WHS will not try and move those files around drives, then once the download is finished, uTorrent moves the completed file(s) to a server share. It is an annoyance, and one that I'm not trying to defend at all, losing data sucks - simple as.

airchie · 12th Mar 2008, 11:44

That really is useless.

Linux FTW TBH.

C-Sniper · 12th Mar 2008, 13:58

yay slackware linux for my server.

leexgx · 12th Mar 2008, 13:58

i had this same problem in the beta server as well (but i was running it in VMware with 6x90gb disks in vmware to test it out)

its an bad bug that should of been fixed an long time ago

Woodstock · 12th Mar 2008, 19:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by leexgx

i had this same problem in the beta server as well (but i was running it in VMware with 6x90gb disks in vmware to test it out)

its an bad bug that should of been fixed an long time ago

imo i cant believe it wasnt noticed before release, it should not have been released with it.

OleJ · 12th Mar 2008, 20:43

ROFL! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a shotgun

Just like any other RTM from MS it's a public beta in disguise.
It's funny how it took MS six revisions of NT to finally release a stable and thorough Windows (XP). Which they then went on and ruined with Vista...

Built on new technology technology

indeed!

12th Mar 2008, 08:54	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,965	Home Server fix delayed until June http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03...d_until_june/1 A fix for a critical data-guzzling bug in Windows Home Server won't be made available until June 2008, a full six months after the problem was brought to Microsoft's attention. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

12th Mar 2008, 09:00	#2
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12th Mar 2008, 09:38	#5
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12th Mar 2008, 10:11	#7
jsheff Modder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: UK Posts: 64	I've been using WHS for about 4 months now, and I got caught out by the bug before it came to light. Lost around 1TB of data. Pretty gutting to say the least. Thakfully, none of it was personal data that wasn't copied somewhere else, like my photos or files. Was a bitch to rip all my CDs and DVDs back to the server again, but now I understand the problem I haven't caught the bug again. Basically, if you're going to use the uTorrent add-in, don't download to a server shared folder. It's to do with WHS's storage balancing system basically trying to balance a file that's already open or being edited (i.e. an unfinished torrent, a word document being saved at the time of balancing, tagging a folder of mp3s, etc). I have my uTorrent set to download to an external drive NOT added to the storage pool, meaning WHS will not try and move those files around drives, then once the download is finished, uTorrent moves the completed file(s) to a server share. It is an annoyance, and one that I'm not trying to defend at all, losing data sucks - simple as.

12th Mar 2008, 13:58	#10
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12th Mar 2008, 20:43	#12
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