On Mon Oct 06, 2014 at 03:29:13PM +0200, Patrik Horník wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to cancel RAID 6 array check? echo check >
> /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action apparently only pauses it and next check
> continuing from saved position. (I guess /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_min)
>
> I want to achieve two things:
>
> - Start check from the start of the array.
>
> - Be sure I can shutdown array without any ill effect because check
> was interrupted.
>
> I guess that position will be cleared when array is stopped and
> started again, but I dont want to guess and experiment... :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrik
You'd echo idle to the sync_action to pause/stop the check. If you want
to restart from the beginning next time, just echo 0 to sync_min
(similarly, if you just want to check/repair a specific range then set
sync_min and sync_max before the check/repair).
Cheers,
Robin
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