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 > 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 > against the underlying filesystems. > > ^^ This is the description of the original bug filed 2011-10-26 by > Andy Whitcroft. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/882147) > > It still applies and the bug is still present and still renders live isos > unusable to a degree. One could say it's a "non-feature" but i would still > call it bug. Unfortunately debian-live-isos are bitten by this too. > > The applied patch is the basicly the patch in the bugreport and applies to > kernel 4.8 - and solve the problem with live isos. You'll need to pursue this upstream. We very rarely apply patches for features that don't exist upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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