Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Balance management, kernel side

2011-03-20 Thread Andreas Philipp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since balancing takes a long time I liked the idea of having some progress counter and the ability to run this long lasting task in background with another option to cancel it if necessary. So I wanted to give it a try. Unfortunately, all the

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Balance management, kernel side

2011-03-20 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:52:26AM +0100, Andreas Philipp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since balancing takes a long time I liked the idea of having some progress counter and the ability to run this long lasting task in background with another option to cancel it

[PATCH v2 0/2] Balance management, kernel side

2010-11-11 Thread Hugo Mills
These two patches give a degree of control over balance operations. The first makes it possible to get an idea of how much work remains to do, by tracking the number of block groups (chunks) that need to be moved/rewritten. The second patch allows a running balance operation to be cancelled