Graceful exit process (Doubts)

This is doesn’t impact your ability to finish a GE unless you have a corrupted pieces. In the last case you have a great chance to be disqualified because of bug (it could fail the entire transfer, it should not be the case, but it is). This bug is not fixed in the current release as far as I know.
So, I would not recommend to start a GE in the current version (1.9.5). Especially in case if you have any concerns that your node may have a corrupted pieces.