Aidan13 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 This was a recent post which kind-of mirrors my problem. Pause a parity rebuilt? By xdriver March 1, 2023 in General Support I am having an overheating issue with a Parity Drive Swap, it is fairly early morning, before 8:30A. My drive swap started about 7pm last night and this morning my drives are at the low heat warring, between 118 - 121 F. This day is suppose to be a warm one, if I could pause my drive swap to start again when it cools down early evening I would love to be able to do it. So a pause button for swapping would be a good option. Thanks Tim N Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 14 minutes ago, Aidan13 said: This was a recent post which kind-of mirrors my problem. Pause a parity rebuilt? By xdriver March 1, 2023 in General Support I am having an overheating issue with a Parity Drive Swap, it is fairly early morning, before 8:30A. My drive swap started about 7pm last night and this morning my drives are at the low heat warring, between 118 - 121 F. This day is suppose to be a warm one, if I could pause my drive swap to start again when it cools down early evening I would love to be able to do it. So a pause button for swapping would be a good option. Thanks Tim N The Parity Check Tuning plugin allows for pausing array operations when drives overheat. I am not sure if currently it works with the specific case of a parity swap during the parity copy phase but it may (I will look into checking it out). Having said that maybe having an external fan to assist the cooling for such an infrequent operation is likely to be both more effective and less hassle. Quote Link to comment
Aidan13 Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 Already have a exterior fan on my Server and I have both side panels open, doing what I can to keep things cool. Swapping 1 14TB parity drive for 2 - 20TB parity drives. Not sure swapping 2 for 1 is slower but here I am, should have planned doing this when climate was more agreeable. Thanks Tim N Quote Link to comment
Solution itimpi Posted January 28 Solution Share Posted January 28 22 minutes ago, Aidan13 said: Already have a exterior fan on my Server and I have both side panels open, doing what I can to keep things cool. Swapping 1 14TB parity drive for 2 - 20TB parity drives. Not sure swapping 2 for 1 is slower but here I am, should have planned doing this when climate was more agreeable. Thanks Tim N if you are simply rebuilding the parity to larger drives and not using the specialist parity swap procedure then the Parity Check Tuning can be set to pause the process while drives are too hot, and automatically resume it when they cool sufficiently.. Quote Link to comment
Aidan13 Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 I did read the specialist parity swap before I started my swap. The Parity Check Tuning sounds brilliant, I will add this plugin for parity checks when I'm done with the swap. My weather has cooled down with a light breeze, so I'm over the hump. Thanks Again Tim N Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 2 hours ago, Aidan13 said: I did read the specialist parity swap before I started my swap. I am assuming that procedure is NOT what you are doing as you are simply upgrading parity at the moment? Quote Link to comment
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