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bug#10376: [Bug 908354] Re: tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anyt
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#10376: [Bug 908354] Re: tail -0f /var/log/kern.log never prints anything (livecd cow overlayfs) |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:48:10 +0100 |
[ following up to this report,
http://bugs.launchpad.net/+source/coreutils/+bug/908354
]
Tuomas Heino wrote:
> address@hidden:~$ stat -f --format %t:%T /var/log
> 1021994:tmpfs
Thanks.
Unlike most file system types, overlayFS appears to have no magic number.
Now we're seeing how using files on such a file system can cause trouble.
I see no direct way to distinguish this file (for which inotify does not
work) from any other on a tmpfs file system, for which inotify works
just fine.
Ugly work-around: tail -f could try using both inotify and polling,
and, eventually, if polling spots a change for which there was no
inotify event, it would give up on using inotify for that file.
As soon as tail sees an inotify event for a file, however, it could
not stop polling: for most remote FS types, inotify works with changes
generated locally, but not with those generated remotely. So polling
can still be useful when using inotify.
We'll see...
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