Re: Cancelling not pausing array check

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:29:13 +0200 Patrik Horník <patrik@xxxxxx> 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... :)

Why ever not?  Guessing and experimenting is AWESOME.  We call it "Science".
I can understand that you might not want to experiment we real data, but
creating a few loop-back devices with "losetup", forming them into an array,
and experimenting on that can be very worthwhile.

NeilBrown


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Patrik
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