Hallo, Sander, Du meintest am 12.11.10:
>> 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. Hmmm - it blocks the console for a long time. I prefer running those long time jobs via "at"; all messages go into a mail to root (or whoever has started the job). "balance" seems to produce a logfile entry every 40 seconds, that may be about 1500 lines for a 1 TByte job. A progress bar produces similar messages, but they aren't as good readable in an e-mail ... I know those long and nearly unreadable mails p.e. from "squidGuard" ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
