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tail -f run on a cluster file system file only works correctly on the local node [3741020]

When you use the tail -f command(1M) to monitor a file on a cluster file system, changes to the file made on remote nodes are not detected. This is due to the tail command now utilizing inotify. Veritas is currently unable to support inotify with a cluster file system due to GPL restrictions.

Workaround:

To revert to the old behavior, you can specify the —disable-inotify option with the tail command.

tail -f run on a cluster file system file only works correctly on the local node [3741020]

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