Subject: bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems

From: Sven Breuner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:33:51 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote on 12/23/2011 07:11 PM:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> ...
>>> My original goal was to warn, for unknown file system types,
>>> that the type is unknown (suggesting to report it), and that
>>> tail -f is resorting to the use of polling.
>>
>> Oh right, warn about unknown.
>> That would make sense.
>
> Here's a proposed patch:
> [...]
> Subject: [PATCH] tail: with -f, use polling when a file is on an FS of
>   unknown type
>[...]

thanks for that. Definitely a good thing (including the more explicit 
table of local/remote fs types and the idea of printing a message for 
unknown fs types to show people an easy way to contribute to the table).

Best regards,
Sven