On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/30/2017 12:28 PM, Abhishek Kandoi wrote: >> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for 'somefile.log'. please >> report this to [email protected]. reverting to polling > > Thanks, this is already fixed in coreutils >= 8.25 (we're currently at 8.28). > > You're in good company with some other users: > https://bugs.gnu.org/29330 > https://bugs.gnu.org/28970 > https://bugs.gnu.org/29022 > https://bugs.gnu.org/28929 > https://bugs.gnu.org/28775 > https://bugs.gnu.org/28290 > https://bugs.gnu.org/28068 > https://bugs.gnu.org/27513 > https://bugs.gnu.org/27276 > https://bugs.gnu.org/26869 > https://bugs.gnu.org/26766 > https://bugs.gnu.org/24927 > https://bugs.gnu.org/24447 > https://bugs.gnu.org/23250 > https://bugs.gnu.org/23125 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22977 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22839 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22393 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22233 > https://bugs.gnu.org/22151
Time to change the wording of that diagnostic to encourage "search for previous reports involving that file system type, and if not found, *then* report it to ...". We could probably even give a decent suggested URL.
