From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graeme Gemmill Subject: Controlled shut-down of mdadm Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:35:12 +0000 Message-ID: <4BA8EDC0.4060506@gemmill.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On the (hopefully) rare occasions when my RAID server gets shut down, is it necessary or desirable to execute a mdadm --stop command in a shut-down script? Applications on other PCs may have files open, and if a prolonged mains break triggers a UPS shutdown, then there may be data loss (not that I'm running a reactor or a bank!). Just a thought... Regards to all Graeme