GNU bug report logs - #34173
Tail File System Error on overlayfs

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: mike <at> nerdcore.net

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: mike <at> nerdcore.net
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Tail File System Error on overlayfs
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:03:55 -0500

I'm using a Docker environment which has a rootfs mounted using the
"overlay" filesystem on Linux kernel 4.4.0-141-generic (Ubuntu 16.04) on
amd64.

Inside the Docker environment I tried the usual "tail follow" command:

  tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

This spat out the error message:

==> /var/log/nginx/error.log <==
tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for
'/var/log/nginx/error.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org.
reverting to polling


And it seemed to work OK after that.
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