Subject: bug#51569: tail -f reports unrecognized file system type

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 18:56:24 +0000

tag 51569 notabug
close 51569
stop

On 02/11/2021 16:01, Tom Barringer wrote:
> Received this error:
> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘ads0.exp’. please
> report this to [email-masked]. reverting to polling
> Environment: Win10 with all updates
> Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
> Target file is ASCII text, with CRLF, LF line terminators
> Error is repeatable.
> 
> Drive C:
> 

That was addressed in coreutils-8.26
(so updating wsl or coreutils therein should fix that).

cheers,
Pádraig