From: "Piotr Pawłow" <pp@siedziba.pl>
To: Paul Jones <paul@pauljones.id.au>,
"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cancel device remove?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:18:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F18310.9070907@siedziba.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B7F2379062E32745A8651FBDB20F64596913D2BD@Server.waterlogic.com.au>
Hello,
> Is there some way to cancel a device remove operation? I have discovered that if I reboot that will cancel it, but that's not always possible. What I'm after is something the same as cancelling scrub.
> I keep running into situations where I want to pause a remove operation for speed reasons.
Since removing a device involves shrinking it to 0 size first
(http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/btrfs/volumes.c#L1743), I guess
you could just run "btrfs filesystem resize" in a loop as a workaround,
shrinking it incrementally, and then remove at the end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-10 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 4:41 Cancel device remove? Paul Jones
2015-09-10 13:18 ` Piotr Pawłow [this message]
2015-09-10 13:47 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
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