On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:28:08PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: > 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. Only 12 hours? Last time I tried it, it took 19. :) It would certainly be easy enough to fork a copy of the userspace tool to run the ioctl in the background. Probably a little more work to make the balance a kernel thread. I'd prefer the former, for ease of implementation. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Great oxymorons of the world, no. 3: Military Intelligence ---
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