Bug#556610: Please do incremental checks every night instead of a full monthly one

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:51:27PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> The main issue which all proposed solutions share is when
> there's a large array, say, md0, and a small array, say,
> md1, both shares the same set of underlying disks, so md
> subystem will not check/repair them in parallel.  In this
> situation, we will never check md1 if checking md0 takes
> more time than we allow in a month (28 days).

Yep.  See my last post.

> I'll think about it all more.

What do you think about suggested above solution
(set sync_force_parallel to 1 during cronjobs)?

Another solution (except mentioned above pooling etc): don't delay
check for current array after reaching of the sync_max threshold.
Just *stop* it.