http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063638 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063638#c79 --- Comment #79 from Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@suse.com> --- (In reply to Frederic Crozat from comment #78)
(In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #76)
The background timer does not know if the time is a convenient one for the user. How about for example running those btrfs tasks directly after installing updates, as part of what the desktop applet shows? That's something desktop users are expected to do regularly anyways and installing updates also degrades system performance.
I'm not so sure it would work:
right now, the quota bug (which is the most visible bug) is happening in btrfs transaction. This means it causes ANY IO write to the same btrfs partition to be blocked. If you happen to have /home in that, it will cause freeze of most applications trying to write on the system (in my case, gnome-shell, or evolution or irc client). Having a notification that balance is in effect will not be helpful at all for that case, because either you will not see it or even if you see it, the system will still be in a "frozen" state, with no possible action on it
That's why balancing should ideally only be done on ACK by the user. Just showing a notification when the timer triggers would be an improvement over the current solution but not fully satisfactory as the user still can't do anything about it. To avoid more and more things bothering the user we could attach the balance job to installing updates as the user resp admin already has to trigger that manually. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.