On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:00:54 -0500 Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I would like to > forward this to those that maintain faq/wiki so that some one searches > gets the info and does not have to bother you. Is that OK? Sure - anything on a public mailing list is public. > > I normally would go for backup before rebuild, but 15TB disk space is > too much to come up with, without serious $$ and need. Besides, these > are movies/recordings for htpc and the data is available on > dvds/internet. So there is inherent lack of importance. In other words, > I recommend backup as most do, but it looks like every one has some > justification not to do, and want some one else to assure them that it > is ok :-) Quite understandable... NeilBrown > > Thanks and Regards > Ramesh > > On 10/12/2014 03:35 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:46:14 -0500 Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I googled this topic and got differing answers. Some old ones report > >> horror stories and others suggest rebuild continues after reboot > >> normally. My array is rebuilding and it will take about 6 days to > >> complete. I am expecting bad weather in a couple of days and would like > >> to proactively shutdown the machine and reboot. Is this safe? > >> > >> If the information is already available in a clear manner, please let me > >> know. > >> > >> uname: Linux xxx 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 > >> UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >> mdadm - v3.2.5 - 18th May 2012 > >> > >> Thanks for your help > >> > > It is certainly designed to be safe and my experience is that it is. > > However it is difficult to test all corner cases so it is not impossible that > > someone what quite work right. > > If something does go wrong: > > 1/ don't panic > > 2/ don't try to --create the array to fix it > > 3/ report all details to this list and I'm 99.9% sure I can get your array > > running again with all your data safe. > > But I suspect it won't come to that. > > > > NeilBrown
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