Where Linux isn’t better

November 18th, 2006 - 9:57pm

Our Internet sharing/firewall/proxy/DHCP/etc server is great, most of the time. Most of the time it does it’s job without complaint and it does it well.

However, when the machine loses power unexpectedly (which seems to happen quite often in our area) the hard disk totally craps out and when the filesystem is attempted to be scanned, it can take hours and hours and still not finish (last time, I left it for seven hours and it was still chugging along terribly slowly).

Linux is great in most cases but I’m surprised that Windows is far more robust in this respect, most of the time it will just do a quick scan then continue without issue. As far as I am concerned this is a big issue with Linux that’s been around for years (I first experienced it seven or eight years ago) and I’m really surprised it hasn’t been fixed by now.

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