Comment 0 for bug 882147

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.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic 3.0.0-12.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: apw 2296 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: apw 2296 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: apw 2296 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc700000 irq 47'
   Mixer name : 'Intel Cantiga HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7675,1028029f,00100103 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 20
   Simple ctrls : 11
Date: Wed Oct 26 17:46:16 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d8328455-deac-4bae-877d-c408d371cefe
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1537
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=cf503727-25f2-4ecd-b0f3-2b894523bcba ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.60
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (9 days ago)
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 09/22/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A03
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd09/22/2008:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1537:pvrA03:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA03:
dmi.product.name: Studio 1537
dmi.product.version: A03
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.