From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:32:49 +0000 (+0200) Subject: tail,stat: improve support for ZFS X-Git-Tag: v8.20~163 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9888e0debce29c6a0f7134bbc6d0ffd3f196bc5;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git 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. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 798a512958..f3874fd220 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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] diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in index f288174dbc..1580151875 100644 --- a/THANKS.in +++ b/THANKS.in @@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ Piotr Kwapulinski kwap@univ.gda.pl Prashant TR tr@eth.net Priit Jõerüüt jemm4jemm@yahoo.com Primoz PETERLIN primozz.peterlin@gmail.com +Raimonds Miltins raimonds@pro-9.com Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Ralf W. Stephan stephan@tmt.de Ralph Loader loader@maths.ox.ac.uk diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index e56f1ffbc4..f75b7aff7f 100644 --- a/src/stat.c +++ b/src/stat.c @@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ human_fstype (STRUCT_STATVFS const *statfsbuf) return "xfs"; case S_MAGIC_XIAFS: /* 0x012FD16D local */ return "xia"; + case S_MAGIC_ZFS: /* 0x2FC12FC1 local */ + return "zfs"; # elif __GNU__ case FSTYPE_UFS: