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| author | Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> | 2016-06-21 11:16:59 -0400 |
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| committer | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> | 2016-07-26 19:26:29 +0200 |
| commit | fe520b5cdc46bc7f34d55b16292d5be805ffd339 (patch) | |
| tree | 661b1fec603b30711be21fa13e88e5fc208580be /Documentation | |
| parent | 1d6c7cb725bb7d25981d44915b316e24751b7b72 (diff) | |
btrfs-progs: add option to run balance as daemon
Currently, balance operations are run synchronously in the foreground.
This is nice for interactive management, but is kind of crappy when you
start looking at automation and similar things.
This patch adds an option to `btrfs balance start` to tell it to
daemonize prior to running the balance operation, thus allowing us to
preform balances asynchronously. The two biggest use cases I have for
this are starting a balance on a remote server without establishing a
full shell session, and being able to background the balance in a
recovery shell (which usually has no job control) so I can still get
progress information.
Because it simply daemonizes prior to calling the balance ioctl, this
doesn't actually need any kernel support.
Signed-off-by: Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/btrfs-balance.asciidoc | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-balance.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-balance.asciidoc index fff8a321..9c6f52bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-balance.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-balance.asciidoc @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ act on system chunks (requires '-f'), see `FILTERS` section for details about 'f be verbose and print balance filter arguments -f:::: force reducing of metadata integrity, eg. when going from 'raid1' to 'single' +--background:::: +run the balance operation asynchronously in the background *status* [-v] <path>:: Show status of running or paused balance. |