On 12/04/16 09:11, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 01:54 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 11/04/16 23:37, Dennis J wrote:
>>> I'm getting this error when doing a tail -f on a simple text file.
>>> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘kn.txt’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling
>>
>> Interesting. What do we call this win_bashfs or something?
>
> There's not much technical information available, but shouldn't
> that "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (WSL) just pass on some NTFS?
> It's not clear to me whether the entry point is a modified bash,
> library or whatever, so bash may not always be involved here.
> Therefore, I'd say "wsl_fs" or "wsl_ntfs" may be a valid name.
>
>> Since there is just a single kernel involved, I'm guessing
>> that we don't need to tag this as a "remote" file system,
>> and that inotify calls will fail/succeed as appropriate.
>> That could be confirmed using the inotifywait command as detailed at:
>> http://bugs.gnu.org/23143#11
>
> WSL is in early beta, so I wouldn't expect inotify to work.

Should be no harm trying though I expect.
I went with "wslfs" as underscores are the exception in names.

I'll push the attached later.

cheers,
Pádraig