[debbugs-tracker] bug#12301: closed (tail -F & ZFS)

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regarding tail -F & ZFS
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> tail -F & ZFS
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> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:00:29 +0300
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> Hello,
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> I'm using Gentoo linux on ZFS and see following when opened file with 
> tail -F (or -f):
> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x2fc12fc1 for ‘/var/log/messages’. 
> please report this to address@hidden reverting to polling
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> Distro: Gentoo
> Kernel: 3.2.22
> Coreutils: 8.16
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> Re: bug#12301: tail -F & ZFS
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> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:30:39 +0200
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> Pádraig Brady wrote:
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> >> Hmm... fsid=0x4010002.
> >> That is definitely not the same number as what is now recorded in
> >> stat.c, so this deserves more investigation:
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> >>     case S_MAGIC_ZFS: /* 0x2FC12FC1 local */
> >>       return "zfs";
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> >> This also shows there is room for improvement.
> >> (should print the hexadecimal FSID):
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> >>     sol10$ ./stat --fo=%t -f /
> >>     ?
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> >> This latter might deserve its own bug, but for now,
> >> I've simply reopened the original ZFS-related bug.
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> > I don't think there is an issue here.
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> > fsid is a per file system rather than per file system type.
> > So '?' is correct on Solaris as it doesn't expose the file
> > system type ID (it doesn't have statfs).
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> > Also tail will default to the more portable polling
> > method when f_type is not available.
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> Oh, good.  Then this really is "done".  Marking as such.
> Thanks!
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