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From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	liubo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:07:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112090755.GA16221@attic.humilis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CDCC258.1050402@csamuel.org>

Chris Samuel wrote (ao):
> On 12/11/10 12:33, Li Zefan wrote:
> 
> > Is there any blocker that prevents us from canceling balance
> > by just Ctrl+C ?
> 
> Given that there's been at least 1 report of it taking 12 hours
> to balance a non-trivial amount of data I suspect putting this
> operation into the background by default and having the cancel
> option might be a better plan.
> 
> Thoughts ?

My humble opinion: I very much like the way mdadm works, with the
progress bar in /proc/mdstat if an array is rebuilding for example.

	Sander

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  0:36 [PATCH v2 0/2] Balance management, kernel side Hugo Mills
2010-11-09 22:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Balance progress monitoring Hugo Mills
2010-11-09 22:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance Hugo Mills
2010-11-12  1:33   ` Li Zefan
2010-11-12  4:28     ` Chris Samuel
2010-11-12  8:08       ` Helmut Hullen
2010-11-12  9:07       ` Sander [this message]
2010-11-12  9:26         ` Andreas Philipp
2010-11-12 11:25         ` Helmut Hullen
2010-11-12 12:04           ` Sander
2010-11-12 11:36       ` Hugo Mills
2010-11-12 17:59         ` Hugo Mills
2011-03-20  8:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Balance management, kernel side Andreas Philipp
2011-03-20 11:37   ` Hugo Mills

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