OK, thanks. So that should be fully working and correct way to do it and I cant harm my array by this in any way? 2014-10-06 15:36 GMT+02:00 Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > position. > > -- > ___ > ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > / / ) | Little Jim says .... | > // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
