Subject: bug#11835: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x61756673

From: Bob Proulx <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:55:58 -0600

forcemerge 11823 11835
thanks

Brett Kuskie wrote:
>  I noticed this error today when running tail on a web server log
> (residing on the aufs filesystem)
> 
> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x61756673 for
> `/var/log/lighttpd/access.log'. please report this to
> [email-masked]. reverting to polling

Thank you for that report.  This was also reported just yesterday.
You can read the discussion and resolution here:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11823

The fix will be in the upcoming coreutils-8.18 release.

Bob