Subject: bug#30989: closed (Re: bug#30989: Bug in "tail")

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:42:02 +0000

Your bug report

#30989: Bug in "tail"

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#30989: Bug in "tail"
From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
To: Florian Lutz <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:40:57 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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 [email-masked]. 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

Subject: Bug in "tail"
From: Florian Lutz <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:09:15 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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 [email-masked]. 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 <[email-masked]>
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

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Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
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