For everyone interested in a quick workaround to the "tail -f" issue, one can use (quoting) «the deliberately undocumented ---disable-inotify option that was introduced in coreutils-7.6». Yes, with three dashes.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583198#20 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #583198 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583198 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882147 Title: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/882147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
