From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: btrfs balancing start - and stop?
Date: 01 Apr 2011 15:36:00 +0200
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Hallo, Konstantinos,

Du meintest am 01.04.11:

>> "dmesg" counts down the number of remaining "jobs".

> are you sure? here is a snippet of dmesg from a balance i did
> yesterday (2.6.38.1)

> btrfs: relocating block group 15338569728 flags 9
> btrfs: found 17296 extents
> btrfs: found 17296 extents
> btrfs: relocating block group 13191086080 flags 9
> btrfs: found 21029 extents
> btrfs: found 21029 extents
> btrfs: relocating block group 11043602432 flags 9
> btrfs: found 4728 extents
> btrfs: found 4728 extents

Yes - there I look how long the balancing job may still work. You see  
that the "relocating" line counts down: 15 13 11 ...

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut