Re: [patch 0/2] Control filesystem balances (userspace)

["Jérôme Poulin" <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>]

You could always use btrfs filesystem balance progress which would not
introduce a new root level option and still be short to type. That
would mean balance should have a "start" option or default to start
when no sub options are used.

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On 2010-10-29, at 20:11, Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk> wrote:

>   These two patches complement the previous two kernel-side
> patches. The first implements a way of displaying the current progress
> of any running balance process. The second patch allows a running
> balance to be cancelled.
>
>   I'm a bit uncertain about the best name for these commands. Several
> options:
>
> 1)
> # btrfs filesystem progress <path>
> # btrfs filesystem cancel <path>
>
>   Way too vague (cancel *what*?)
>
>
> 2)
> # btrfs filesystem balance-progress <path>
> # btrfs filesystem balance-cancel <path>
>
>   Clashes horribly with "filesystem balance" -- no abbreviations
> possible.
>
>
> 3)
> btrfs filesystem balance -p <path>
> btrfs filesystem balance -c <path>
>
>   Changes behaviour significantly on a switch, in contrast to the
> behaviour of the rest of the btrfs tool.
>
>
> 4)
> btrfs balance progress <path>
> btrfs balance cancel <path>
>
>   My current favourite, although we introduce a new namespace
> ("balance") for commands. We could add "btrfs balance start <path>" as
> a synonym for "btrfs filesystem balance <path>", for some degree of
> consistency.
>
>   At some point, I'll add a "monitor" function, which will poll at 1s
> intervals for progress updates, and print out progress when it changes.
>
>   Hugo.
>
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