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From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: add option to run balance as daemon
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:39:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5785C5F2.2040007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adc6bbe4-48d8-27d2-468f-7e7816ae96cf@gmail.com>

12.07.2016 15:25, Austin S. Hemmelgarn пишет:
> 
> I'm not changing my init system just to add functionality that should
> already exist in btrfs-progs.  The fact that the balance ioctl is
> synchronous was a poor design choice, and we need to provide the option
> to work around that independent of what our users are running.  There's
> been enough interest from other people that it should be obvious that
> people want this _in_ btrfs-progs.  The point is to not _need_ anything
> else to do this.

May be I miss something obvious, but what is wrong with

nohup btrfs balance start &

nohup is definitely available on every system and so far I have been
using it in exactly such cases when I needed to leave something running
for a long time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-21 15:16 [PATCH] btrfs-progs: add option to run balance as daemon Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-11  1:44 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2016-07-26 17:07   ` David Sterba
2016-07-26 17:25     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-11  7:26 ` Tomasz Torcz
2016-07-11 11:17   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-11 16:58     ` Tomasz Torcz
2016-07-12 12:25       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-12 15:22         ` Duncan
2016-07-12 18:25           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-13  4:39         ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2016-07-13 11:57           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-13 16:38 ` David Sterba
2016-07-13 16:59   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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