Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal
The "tail" command doesn't know the GPFS filesystem type, so it uses
inotify() instead of nanosleep() when used with "-f".
The following line should be added to the fs.h file :
# define S_MAGIC_GPFS 0x47504653
and the following line should be added to the fremote() function of the
tail.c file :
case S_MAGIC_GPFS:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared
library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared
library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared
libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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From: Martial <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: coreutils: "tail -f" doesn't work with GPFS filesystem
Message-ID: <20111020162340.3278.80419.reportbug@dell01>
X-Mailer: reportbug 4.12.6
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:23:40 +0200
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal
The "tail" command doesn't know the GPFS filesystem type, so it uses inotify()
instead of nanosleep().
The following line should be added to the fs.h file :
# define S_MAGIC_GPFS 0x47504653
and the following line should be added to the fremote() function of the tail.c
file :
case S_MAGIC_GPFS:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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