12.07.2016 15:25, Austin S. Hemmelgarn пишет:
> 
> I'm not changing my init system just to add functionality that should
> already exist in btrfs-progs.  The fact that the balance ioctl is
> synchronous was a poor design choice, and we need to provide the option
> to work around that independent of what our users are running.  There's
> been enough interest from other people that it should be obvious that
> people want this _in_ btrfs-progs.  The point is to not _need_ anything
> else to do this.

May be I miss something obvious, but what is wrong with

nohup btrfs balance start &

nohup is definitely available on every system and so far I have been
using it in exactly such cases when I needed to leave something running
for a long time.
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