Mike, the problem is that overlayfs effectively pretends to have inotify but it in fact never sends any notifications. tail *does* in fact test that the inotify calls succeed and fall back to other methods if they don't, but the exact manner of the failure here defeats its test.
Mike, the problem is that overlayfs effectively pretends to have inotify but it in fact never sends any notifications. tail *does* in fact test that the inotify calls succeed and fall back to other methods if they don't, but the exact manner of the failure here defeats its test.