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From: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:28:08 +1100
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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 ?

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