Bug 1327881 - [RHEL7] tail -f doesn't work on m1fs file systems
Summary: [RHEL7] tail -f doesn't work on m1fs file systems
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Jakub Prokes
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-17 13:23 UTC by Yigal Korman
Modified: 2016-11-04 07:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: coreutils-8.22-17.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 07:40:27 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:2497 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE coreutils bug fix update 2016-11-03 14:11:50 UTC

Description Yigal Korman 2016-04-17 13:23:03 UTC
"tail -f file" on m1fs file-system reports the following warning:
tail: unrecognized file system type 0x5346314d for ‘file’. please report this to bug-coreutils. reverting to polling.

m1fs is the first file-system to support persistent memory (NVDIMM and others) made by Plexistor Ltd.
A community edition can be downloaded from http://www.plexistor.com/download/

Our customers are reporting the problem above in RHEL7 and we'd like to help fix it.

We've got approval for the fix from the coreutils maintainers:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23283
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8faf269250

version:
coreutils-8.22-15.el7_2.1.x86_64

Please let me know if any additional information is required.

Comment 1 Yigal Korman 2016-04-17 13:30:45 UTC
An important note I forgot to mention - m1fs support inotify so reverting to polling is incorrect behavior.

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2016-04-18 10:56:14 UTC
Thanks, revert to polling for unknown filesystems is probably better than staying with inotify. OTOH, the message is over-aggressive in the enterprise operating system with long support.

Comment 4 Ondrej Vasik 2016-04-18 18:55:31 UTC
That being said, my plan is to remove the message about "revert to polling" by default from RHEL 7 coreutils (available in debug mode) and to add m1fs to the list of known local filesystems. Thanks for handling this upstream first btw.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 07:40:27 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2497.html


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