Bug#850884: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2018-11-05 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #850884 Hi, this is still an issue on current kernels. I am running Debian Live CD with 4.18.10, and tail -f, uses pooling on root overlayfs, instead of inotify (verified using strace). It is not a huge issue for tail itself, but for some other apps it can.

Bug#850884: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2017-01-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign 850884-1 src:linux 4.8.15-2 Control: tag -1 upstream Control: severity -1 normal On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 21:58 +0100, Alf Gaida wrote: > Package: linux-source-4.8 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > When using tail on the liveCD some updates are not reported. This seems to be

Processed (with 1 error): Re: Bug#850884: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2017-01-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign 850884-1 src:linux 4.8.15-2 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. > tag -1 upstream Bug #850884 [linux-source-4.8] overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly Added tag(s) upstream. > severity -1 normal Bug #850884 [linux-source-

Bug#850884: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly

2017-01-10 Thread Alf Gaida
Package: linux-source-4.8 Severity: important Tags: patch When using tail on the liveCD some updates are not reported. This seems to be triggered by tail using inotify to identify modified files. Overlayfs does not appear to be implementing inotify quite the way you might hope reporting only again