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Bug in "tail"

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From: Florian Lutz <florian.lutz <at> oth-regensburg.de>
To: <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Bug in "tail"
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:09:15 +0200

Hello, when using "tail":

tail (GNU coreutils) 8.23
Copyright (C) 2014 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.

it said:

unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘current’. please report
this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling


Thus i am writing this e-mail. It was used on an overlayfs Filesystem.

filename:
/lib/modules/4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64/kernel/fs/overlayfs/overlay.ko
alias:          fs-overlay
license:        GPL
description:    Overlay filesystem
author:         Miklos Szeredi <miklos <at> szeredi.hu>
depends:
intree:         Y
vermagic:       4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           check_copy_up:bool
parm:           ovl_check_copy_up:Warn on copy-up when causing process
also has a R/O fd open


I hope this information helps.

Regards

-- 
Florian Lutz
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
florian.lutz <at> oth-regensburg.de
Tel.: +49 941 943 1484

Message #10 received at 30989-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Florian Lutz <florian.lutz <at> oth-regensburg.de>
Cc: 30989-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30989: Bug in "tail"
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:40:57 -0600

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Florian Lutz wrote:
> 
> tail (GNU coreutils) 8.23
> [...] 
> unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘current’. please report
> this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling
> 
> Thus i am writing this e-mail. It was used on an overlayfs Filesystem.

Support for this filesystem has been added in later versions
of coreutils (8.25 and later). For details see here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/filesystems.html

regards,
 - assaf

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