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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on May 10, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior
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mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on.

Deficiency of this
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However oftentimes only a few NSDs will actually need rebalancing or emptying.

But the display leads towards huge jumps in % complete, followed by hours long time where it will hardly move at all. Which in turn means there is no way to estimate how long this process will take.

Proposed solution
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I wish to change the percent complete to be the percentage completed of the total data to be moved. This will lead to a much better guide to expected completion time for the end user.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 15, 2022

    Basically this applies to all all tools running an PIT and reporting percentages. Most of the time they are not helping for time estimates at all.

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