On 06/13/2014 08:46 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote: > Hi, > as reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104244 , > Veritas Clustered Filesystem ( vxfs ) has issues with inotify support - > thus tail --follow doesn't work properly. Can you please add this > filesystem to the list of remote filesystem?
The attached should fix it up. thanks, Pádraig.
>From f60aab9103499c48c055eb3678a4c5b0893312d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <p...@draigbrady.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:16:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix to use polling mode for VXFS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Veritas File System can run in single instance or clustered mode, so mark as remote to avoid using inotify for the latter case. * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Tag VXFS as remote to use polling for the VXCFS variant. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Reported by OndÅej VaÅ¡Ãk in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1104244 Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/17770 --- NEWS | 3 +++ src/stat.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2f43da6..5d1fe99 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- shuf --repeat no longer dumps core if the input is empty. [bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22] + tail -f now uses polling mode for VXFS to cater for its clustered mode. + [bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5] + ** New features od accepts a new option: --endian=TYPE to handle inputs with different byte diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index 0f67d22..b65dbe5 100644 --- a/src/stat.c +++ b/src/stat.c @@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ human_fstype (STRUCT_STATVFS const *statfsbuf) return "v9fs"; case S_MAGIC_VMHGFS: /* 0xBACBACBC remote */ return "vmhgfs"; - case S_MAGIC_VXFS: /* 0xA501FCF5 local */ + case S_MAGIC_VXFS: /* 0xA501FCF5 remote */ + /* Veritas File System can run in single instance or clustered mode, + so mark as remote to cater for the latter case. */ return "vxfs"; case S_MAGIC_VZFS: /* 0x565A4653 local */ return "vzfs"; -- 1.7.7.6
