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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-08-29 09:32:49 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-08-29 09:42:33 +0200
commitc9888e0debce29c6a0f7134bbc6d0ffd3f196bc5 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-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.
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@@ -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]