Is it OK to pause data drive rebuild to move files around (on a different data drive)?

[Auggie]

I thought I came across the answer many eons ago, but haven't been able to find the thread.

 

Is it okay to pause a data drive rebuild (due to upgrading to larger drive) in order to do some large file movements involving different data drives, then continue the rebuild after the file operations are completed?

 

Again, I thought UnRAID would keep track of all file ops and update the parity on-the-fly, even when performing a data drive rebuilds, but I want to have confirmation one way or the other...

[itimpi]

Yes -you can do that.

 

however it is worth pointing out that is not ‘files’ that are being tracked but physical disk sectors as the rebuild process has no understanding of file systems.

[Auggie]

23 minutes ago, itimpi said:

however it is worth pointing out that is not ‘files’ that are being tracked but physical disk sectors as the rebuild process has no understanding of file systems.

 

Yep, I know the differences!  But I am not directly manipulating blocks and sectors; and for the topic at hand, it would sound rather obtuse saying "I want modify sectors on data drives," which may imply I'm using a utility to directly manipulate drive blocks and sectors... 😃