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From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.
Date: 12 Nov 2010 12:25:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B$jNZIPD1uB@helmut.hullen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112090755.GA16221@attic.humilis.net>

Hallo, Sander,

Du meintest am 12.11.10:

>> 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.

Hmmm - it blocks the console for a long time.

I prefer running those long time jobs via "at"; all messages go into a  
mail to root (or whoever has started the job).

"balance" seems to produce a logfile entry every 40 seconds, that may be  
about 1500 lines for a 1 TByte job.
A progress bar produces similar messages, but they aren't as good  
readable in an e-mail ...

I know those long and nearly unreadable mails p.e. from "squidGuard" ...

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 11:25 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
2010-11-12  9:26         ` Andreas Philipp
2010-11-12 11:25         ` Helmut Hullen [this message]
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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