On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 07:24:24AM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > (for example, you can't easily start a balance on a remote > system via a ssh command, which is the specific use case I have).
Wait, what? ssh remotehost -n btrfs balance start -d... -m... /foo \& or ssh remotehost -f btrfs balance start -d... -m... /foo It even works with systemd's auto-kill feature (send btrfs balance all the SIGKILLs you want, the kernel just ignores them).
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