Yes, a functional checksummed filesystem is a very good thing. However, the real motivation is not to be found into the mythical “bitrot” which, while does happen, is very rare. Rather, the main advantage is that such a filesystem provide and end-to-end data checksum, actively protecting you by erroneous disk behavior as misdirected writes and … Read more
Ok – something was bugging me about your issue, so I fired up a VM to dive into the behavior that should be expected. I’ll get to what was bugging me in a minute; first let me say this: Back up these drives before attempting anything!! You may have already done damage beyond what the … Read more
If your array is md0 then echo “idle” > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action ‘idle’ will stop an active resync/recovery etc. There is no guarantee that another resync/recovery may not be automatically started again, though some event will be needed to trigger this. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/md.txt#477