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tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for '/var/log/cron.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

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Message #16 received at 29530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Jonas <jonas <at> jlss.eu>
Cc: GNU bug control <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 29530 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29530: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for
 '/var/log/cron.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting
 to polling
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 16:41:35 +0100

On 12/03/2017 06:35 PM, Jonas wrote:
> tail -f was affected, and polling didn't actually update anything (watch
> tail did show updates)

Yes, this is only a warning; 'tail-f' still works when falling back to
polling, of course, but not as efficiently as it would do with the
inotify interface the kernel provides.

We had this warning to be prompted by users about new file system types,
but as now we regularly update to the list in the kernel sources, we
removed the warning.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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