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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-08-29 09:32:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-08-29 09:42:33 +0200 |
| commit | c9888e0debce29c6a0f7134bbc6d0ffd3f196bc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6755863007f7ef8632e278258f08494d1958f89b /NEWS | |
| parent | 58afeebe08ce400756a3f7554a207d7393a44a90 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c9888e0debce29c6a0f7134bbc6d0ffd3f196bc5.tar.xz | |
tail,stat: improve support for ZFS
This change enables tail -f to use inotify and lets
stat -f --format=%T report the file system type name, "zfs".
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add a case: zfs, 0x2fc12fc1.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
* THANKS.in: Update.
Reported by Raimonds Miltins in http://bugs.gnu.org/12301.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)] +** Improvements + + stat and tail work better with ZFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the + file system type, "zfs", and tail -f now uses inotify for files on ZFS + file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file system types) + of polling. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable] |