Subject: Re: bug#26324: Tail does not recognize .log file type

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:03:07 -0600

retitle 26324 tail,stat: add UNIONFS (0xf15f083d)
tags 26324 wontfix
close 26324
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-04-02 2:56 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> It seems that this was a UNIONFS filesystem ...
> 
>    http://unionfs.filesystems.org/
>    http://copilotco.com/mail-archives//linux-kernel.2008/msg45027.html
> 
> ... which never made it into the linux kernel.
> I'm not sure we should support that.  Newer tail(1) >v8.24  wouldn't
> output the warning any longer anyway, so silently falling back
> to polling seems to be sufficient for UNIONFS.
> 

Given the above, and no further comments,
I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf