-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12.11.2010 10:07, Sander wrote: > Chris Samuel wrote (ao): >> On 12/11/10 12:33, Li Zefan wrote: >> >>> Is there any blocker that prevents us from canceling balance by >>> just Ctrl+C ? >> >> 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. > > Sander Just my personal opinion: I would like the balance to happen in background by default (with an option for foreground operation as well) and another command/option to cancel the operation. Of course, a progress bar (together with some estimate of the remaining time?) like the one mdadm offers would be great. Andreas Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJM3QhMAAoJEJIcBJ3+XkgioZoQAJ5bAD1xShKfda9oPK75x707 0AYu7C4sUSbu/3BINCv7XEv8MNBU++2FezRc/weSXjgmkhX4pXpMBhFZL6edlpot VQ0y87rJ79HPe1NibiAmp4HOW95J2+R987mOJpIU10xU1TvpWAhpQextUKi27eg+ Z+XO/vm0oCv0+6YSqKnjpUPNd12r5zo7msanPnny5t57oFDXd6LCRjflt5FsP6mI HKdM3R3EiBdlCyJsBpjDCZmJpUKvOFqoqn2OT/g7BHkE6XjuY0HqUysFLbNtWGIr zhnx95W+cqgFY1YAvLwbrirtzX8MvO4R83c+klwQJPM9eL3+GkxyMrbnN3uQ4ie+ 1wsgVCyyVT6QFLXnVeqo4ZvSNZh2/9S6waL1T0cFj1YAKBnDI3mCPo+S9CcIUuH4 KnOv3bqA3okAy0WUh3FuWNOc9fMX3tEPtE+b9JqDo1BmG0ZdnsGEdbJQxRe1xRFG CwWsT1efV1tXEqrfsigxAlpMj9PY/uagwEYmhjQG1QU9/yGhXeZYfvE/cdYD5+Nj chB2CpHISyQSLKAqwvLRF/tmkIjMRWrW2O3j3RGmkyEyrGl7eFKM0//1n1kmkGMc SEAF3/fn61Wt/4YtA9r1py1Xe1deNhBGVuQQe2M1YMhITV0wSjIWPjmeL0eYu8n7 EsJdFOXoQIxIlkI7/lB+ =FQQ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
