From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/2] Control filesystem balances (kernel side)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:07:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101030000726.286517546@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
These two patches give a degree of control over balance operations.
The first makes it possible to get an idea of how much work remains to
do, by tracking the number of block groups (chunks) that need to be
moved/rewritten. The second patch allows a running balance operation
to be cancelled when the current block group has been moved.
One fundamental question, though -- is the progress monitor
function best implemented as an ioctl, as I've done here, or should it
be two or three sysfs files? I'm thinking of /proc/mdstat...
Obviously, /proc/mdstat would never get into /sys, but exposing the
"expected" and "remaining" values as files has an attractive
simplicity to it.
The user-space side of things are in a separate patch series, to
follow.
Please be gentle with me, this is my first (serious, non-trivial)
kernel patch. :)
Hugo.
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next reply other threads:[~2010-10-30 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 0:07 Hugo Mills [this message]
2010-10-30 0:07 ` [patch 1/2] Balance progress monitoring Hugo Mills
2010-10-30 13:37 ` Hugo Mills
2010-10-30 13:39 ` [patch 1/2] Balance progress monitoring (updated) Hugo Mills
2010-11-01 8:06 ` liubo
2010-11-01 12:55 ` Hugo Mills
2010-11-02 0:51 ` liubo
2010-10-30 0:07 ` [patch 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance Hugo Mills
2010-10-30 17:44 ` [patch 0/2] Control filesystem balances (kernel side) Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-11-01 12:58 ` Xavier Nicollet
2010-11-01 12:52 ` Tomasz Torcz
2010-11-01 13:05 ` Hugo Mills
2010-11-04 22:55 ` RFC: exporting info via sysfs [was Re: [patch 0/2] Control filesystem balances (kernel side)] Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-11-05 12:41 ` Hugo Mills
2010-11-08 18:01 [patch 0/2] Control filesystem balances (kernel side) Mike Fedyk
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