Safely stopping a maintenance script?

kdave / btrfsmaintenance

Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.

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Safely stopping a maintenance script? #77

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Is there a way to safely stop a running maintenenance script? Sometimes they are long running, especially if combined with other I/O. Is there a way to tell systemd to stop the scripts after a specific amount of time, or if system utilisation becomes too high?

kdave commented 4 years ago

I think it should be possible to do with some systemd.service magic and script handling eg. signals.