[debbugs-tracker] bug#21664: closed (tail: unrecognized file system type 0x62656570)

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> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x62656570
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> Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:35:39 +0300
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> I'm developing a kernel module that is registered as a configfs 
> subsystem. When running tail -f on one of the pseudo-files I get the 
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> # tail -f /config/subsys/log
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> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x62656570 for ‘/config/subsys/log’. 
> please report this to address@hidden reverting to polling
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> On 11/10/15 22:15, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Benny Halevy wrote:
> >> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x62656570 for ‘/config/subsys/log’. 
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> >> report this to address@hidden reverting to polling
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> This was already addressed with:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.22-101-g56c9a43
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> > How about if we turn off that diagnostic entirely?  It's not clear to me that 
> > it's worth the aggravation of getting these bug reports.
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> Fair point. I've already updated README-release with instructions
> to periodically syn the file system list with the latest Linux kernel,
> so we don't need this warning. For the edge case of newer out of
> tree file systems, polling mode should suffice without issuing a warning.
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> Pushed at:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=e6b3af6
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> thanks,
> Pádraig.
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