Does the parity drive rebuild everytime you reboot your machine?

[drkwtsn]

Is this normal?

It seems to be rebuilding, but I'm not sure.....

[DeathtoToasters]

If you do NOT stop the parity via the button in the admin OR via telnet and just shut down the machine....then it rebuild the parity when you reboot.

 

 

[drkwtsn]

what is the command via telnet to shut it down?

 

I typically use shutdown now, then when it pops to the login, shut it down

 

[lovingHDTV]

With the new software, I hit stop array, then a reboot button appears.  I hit that.

 

or at that point you can use shutdown now, but only after you stop the array.

 

[limetech]

Once the array is Stopped, you can just power off.  Stopping the array also flushes all buffers and sync's all file systems.

 

If you power off or lose power while the array is Started, then next time it boots it will automatically start a background parity check.

[drkwtsn]

Tom,

 

    What is the command from the prompt to shutdown the array? My machine keeps loosing web accessibility and I would like to be able to shutdown from telnet and then reboot the machine.

 

Thanks

 

-Derek

[limetech]

From the command prompt, type the command "stop" and then "reboot", for example:

 

Server login: root
Linux 2.4.31.
root@Server:~# ls
cmd*  samba*  stop*
root@Server:~# stop
umount: /mnt/disk11: not mounted
cmdOper=stop
cmdResult=ok
root@Server:~# reboot

Broadcast message from root (ttyp0) (Mon Apr 24 09:51:51 2006):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
root@Server:~#

 

You'll get "not mounted" errors for empty disk slots (as in disk11 above).  Also, if all your disks are spun down, command will take a while since disks will be spun up serially.