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-rw-r--r--src/tail.c1
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3ed44b284..4d210b537 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
tac no longer fails to handle two or more non-seekable inputs
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
+ tail -f no longer tries to use inotify on GPFS file systems
+ [you might say this was introduced in coreutils-7.5, along with inotify
+ support, but the GPFS magic number wasn't in the usual places then.]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.14 (2011-10-12) [stable]
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index f31577633..1641a12d4 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -904,6 +904,7 @@ fremote (int fd, const char *name)
case S_MAGIC_FUSEBLK:
case S_MAGIC_FUSECTL:
case S_MAGIC_GFS:
+ case S_MAGIC_GPFS:
case S_MAGIC_KAFS:
case S_MAGIC_LUSTRE:
case S_MAGIC_NCP: