I'm trying to follow a regular text file with tail -f -n 50 filename
. I get the information from the file just fine, except I always get this error message:
tail: unrecognized file system type 0xbeefdead
It happens on every file. The 0xbeefdead
worries me — it looks like a hacker tag.
$ tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 8.4
Best Answer
If you're getting this warning when using the StorNext filesystem and are running
coreutils
8.21 or earlier, there isn't much to worry about; this warning message is expected.GNU
tail
has hardwired knowledge about a number of filesystem types, and warns when it encounters an unknown type. Support for the StorNext filesystem was added totail
incoreutils
in April 2013, and was released incoreutils
8.22. The commit is here. If you can't get that version ofcoreutils
, or wish to edit and recompile the source yourself, here is the diff from that commit: