No space left on device - bug?

[Colin Law]

On 8 August 2011 16:39, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am been noticing this odd error in my ubunut 11.04 64bit.
>
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ cat file
> this is a file
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ tail file
> this is a file
> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ tail -f file
> this is a file
> tail: cannot watch `file': No space left on device

Could this be relevant?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/700958  tail
-f gives misleading error message when inotify limit is reached

Otherwise googling for
tail no space left on device
throws up a number of links that might help

Colin