VirtualBox

Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#11641 closed defect (wontfix)

vboxsf does not seem to support BLKGETSIZE & BLKFLSBUF

Reported by: RoelV Owned by:
Component: shared folders Version: VirtualBox 4.2.10
Keywords: vboxsf Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

[roel@localhost ~]$ mount | egrep "sda|vboxsf"
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/ssd on /ssd type vboxsf (rw)
ssd on /media/sf_ssd type vboxsf (gid=501,rw)
[roel@localhost ~]$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  492 MB in  3.01 seconds = 163.28 MB/sec
[roel@localhost ~]$ sudo hdparm -t /media/sf_ssd

/media/sf_ssd:
 BLKGETSIZE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

BLKFLSBUF failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
[roel@localhost ~]$
[roel@localhost ~]$ sudo hdparm -t /ssd

/ssd:
 BLKGETSIZE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
BLKFLSBUF failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

This is not a bug. Other remote filesystems like 'nfs' do also not support there system calls.

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