Subject: bug#22151: tail error

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:14:14 +0000

On 12/12/15 13:04, Pascal wrote:
> hi,
> tail reports this on a particular file :
> 
> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for '/var/log/xxx.log'. please report this to [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>. reverting to polling
> 
> the file system used is :
> 
> /dev/loop0 /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
> airootfs / overlay rw,relatime,lowerdir=/run/archiso/sfs/airootfs,upperdir=/run/archiso/cowspace/persistent_live/x86_64/upperdir,workdir=/run/archiso/cowspace/persistent_live/x86_64/workdir 0 0
> 
> this is a live cd of archlinux build with archiso.
> 
> regards, lacsaP.

Interesting. I see that the following is not defined
in the standard linux/magic.h location:
#define OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x794c7630

I'll fix that up, and see if there is a handy way
to identify other MAGIC values in the kernel.

thanks,
Pádraig