Marius Bjørnstad wrote: > I get this message when doing tail -f on a file which is stored on ZFS. > > tail: unrecognized file system type 0x2fc12fc1 for `messages'. please > report this to [email protected]. reverting to polling > > [I normally wouldn't report this as it's an unusual filesystem and tail > -f still works fine, but I'll do it as it asked me to :]
Thank you for reporting that. That was addressed not long ago. Those changes will be in the upcoming coreutils-8.20 release: [so I've marked the your auto-created issue as "done"] From http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS ** Improvements ... stat and tail know about ZFS, VZFS and VMHGFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files on ZFS and VZFS file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling. tail -f still uses polling for files on VMHGFS file systems.
