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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]