Subject: bug#38664: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘file’. please report this to [email-masked]. reverting to polling

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:29:49 +0100

tag 38664 notabug
close 38664
stop

Hello,

On 2019-12-18 22:07, Thanassis Adamis wrote:
> Hi,
> This was encountered in Windows subsystem for linux.
> sample file is attached.
> 
> thanos@win10-ubuntu:~/down
> $ tail -f payments-schedule.txt
> 27/12/2019  EYDAP
> 30/12/2019  DEH
> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘payments-schedule.txt’.
> please report this to [email-masked]. reverting to polling

Thanks for reporting.
Support for the 'wslfs' file system has been added in version 8.26
(and we're at 8.31 now).

See https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/filesystems.html for
more details.

Have a nice day,
Berny