Comment 21 for bug 882147

Why bother with inotify: The is the huge problem with community driven software. Performance is always given the right of way, stability and usefulness are not universally considered important.

If there is a *single situation where a feature doesn’t function then every application that makes use of this feature needs to either exit with error or handle a warning. This bug is about "When using tail on the liveCD some updates are not reported.", not about the lack of inotify support. The lack of inotify is a different bug, the issue here is that this one software package doesn’t appropriately handle cases were inotify doesn’t function as it should.

I've no problems with an application that makes use of inotify, I've an issue with applications expect inotify to always be available even on Overlwayfs/3.0.0-12-generic.

* A a filesystem that made it into a release kernel, being a good example.