I don't know what happened (I only know it was related to plugging in my old bad drives to try and pre-clear/test them again just out of curiosity) but unraid decided that my first parity disk was bad or something 🙄 (it's brand new and went through no less than 1 full preclear) so I learned a lesson there.  But I started the array in maintenance mode and hit sync with the intention of it helping to shave some time off, without realizing I actually needed to access some data before the 17 hours that I'd have to wait without mounting the array.

 

Is there a safe way to not have to start the parity sync over and still mount the array?  Or will I have to start over?  And if I do, how do I do that safely?  I assume I would simply cancel the parity-sync, and then start the array only not in maintenance mode this time?

 

Thanks so much!

3 hours ago, johmei said:

Or will I have to start over?

This.

 

3 hours ago, johmei said:

I assume I would simply cancel the parity-sync, and then start the array only not in maintenance mode this time?

Correct.

Thanks very much for confirming this!  While I hope there won't be a next time any time soon, I won't do maintenance mode if I have to again just in case I need access to my files!