The last two times I have shut down my server, a parity check is automatically initiated upon turning back on, presumably because a forced shutdown was initiated for whatever reason. I powered down the server through the GUI and not the power button.

 

I just want to make sure these checks don't start every time there is a fake forced shutdown. I want to power off my server more often.

In order to shutdown the array cleanly, you have to stop the array first, and then hit power down. I had an issue similar to this a couple versions back where my server was also doing the automatic parity checks after I would Reboot or Power Off (It registered them as unclean shutdowns). To my understanding, I don't believe there is a way to "Disable" Automatic Parity Checks, but I do think there is a script that helps in unclean shutdowns I.E the use of the power button.

 

I found this article awhile back which helped me tremendously in understanding Unraid Parity Checks.

 

I hope this helps!

-Darrell

Edited July 19, 20232 yr by DirtyDarrell

Do a manual array stop and check the time required.  Than go to this page and set this parameter to be longer than the time you measured.

 

 

Then test to see if things are working correctly.

 

The other possibility is that he flag to indicate a proper array short is not being written to the Unraid flash drive.

Edited July 20, 20232 yr by Frank1940
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