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From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:07:55 +0100
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Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
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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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