News Home Server fix delayed until June

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03/12/home_server_fix_delayed_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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

WinXP Pro x64 all the way

 

Win2003 Enterprise X64 Cheesecake

 

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.

 

That really is useless.

Linux FTW TBH.

 

yay slackware linux for my server.

 

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.

 

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!