GNU bug report logs - #18492
Unrecognized file system using tail

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert <at> vnitconsultancy.nl>

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:42:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 12301, 12498, 16080

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Norbert van Nobelen <norbert <at> vnitconsultancy.nl>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Unrecognized file system using tail
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:19:09 -0700

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Error:
tail: unrecognized file system type 0x2fc12fc1 for ‘catalina.out’. please
report this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling

File system in use: ZFS (www.zfsonlinux.org, version 0.6.3)

tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 8.17
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor,
and Jim Meyering.


Working of tail -f "file" seems to be completely normal. tail -F not tested.

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