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.
next prev 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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