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tail: unrecognized file system type 0x786f4256

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, Pausch Manfred <Manfred.Pausch <at> tgw-group.com>, 41935 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41935: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x786f4256
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:28:00 +0100

On 20/06/2020 15:15, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2020-06-18 17:57, Pausch Manfred wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> When I tail a logfile that’s located on a VirtualBox guest shared folder than I get this message:
>>
>> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x786f4256 for ‘oracle_12102_PSU190716-20200618_174315.log’. please report this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling
>>
>> My setup:
>> VirtualBox Guest: Oracle Linux 7.x
>> VirtualBox Host: Windows 10
>>
>> A directory on the host is mapped into the guest via VirtualBox shared folder and mounted in the guest.
>> The process that writes to the logfile runs inside the guest. And tail that follows the logfile also runs inside the guest.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> It's unusual that this FS-type slipped through for so long.
> The attached fixes it.
> 
> An internet search unveils that inotify does not seem to work reliably
> for 'vboxsf', and I think that this cannot really reliably work, e.g. if a Windows
> host exposes a directory on a CIFS share into a Linux guest VM (which works, I tried).
> Therefore, I've marked 'vboxsf' as a 'remote' file system which uses polling.

+1

thanks

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