On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:32:33AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:40:07 Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I did a balance on a system that had 3.11 (yes, I know, it's old). It hung.
> > So, I rebooted with 3.13, and it failed in fs/btrfs/relocation
> >
> > Problem #1: I cannot stop the relocation. It starts on its own as soon as I
> > mount the FS, and I can't stop it.
> > Is there a bug to fix that?
>
> The skip_balance mount option prevents a balance from being continued. On all
> my systems I have rootflags=skip_balance in the GRUB configuration because so
> far I have never had a system reboot during a balance for any reason other
> than a system crash caused by the balance.
Aaah, good idea, thank you.
> I think it would be good to have a program comparable to tune2fs that allows
> us to set the state of such things. It would be a lot easier than modifying
> boot loader configuration on lots of systems.
Totally agreed.
I'll still wait a bit to see if someone wants me to provide more info
from the FS, but having balance crash the system and hard lock it, is
indeed not good.
Thanks,
Marc
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