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Bug#608185: btrfs-tools: balance tree action should be only triggered by root



On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 21:53 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> Package: btrfs-tools
> Version: 0.19+20100601-3, 0.19+20101101-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Balance tree action of btrfs command should be limited to only root
> user, because it may cause data corrupt

Why would it cause corruption?

> and usually result in an
> uninterruptible process which is causing a heavy I/O load (the process
> may keep runing for a long time because the action is not a easy deal).
[...]

I agree with this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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