[Discuss] Why NOT use Linux?

[Richard Pieri]

Joe Polcari wrote:
> Really - which linux does this?

My HP40L with vanilla Debian 6 and 7. Five disks, four on one SATA 
controller, one on another. The lone disk sometimes is sda, sometimes is 
sde. Debian uses the UUID hack so it boots, but this makes it more 
difficult for me to replace that disk since a new disk will have a 
different UUID.

I've had the same problem with Ubuntu and a worse one when a kernel 
update decided to change how the dmraid system numbered metadevices 
without bothering to tell anyone. I've had even worse problems with 
RHEL/CentOS/SL where systems were rendered unbootable immediately after 
installation because the device lists changed between the installation 
kernels and the runtime kernels.

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Rich P.