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From: mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin)
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Subject: Re: help in finding which machine a file is actually stored on
Keywords: help NFS
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Date: 26 May 89 17:29:09 GMT
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In article <8204@thorin.cs.unc.edu> sunj@unc.cs.unc.edu (John Sun) writes:
>I need help some help in determining the actual machine a file is stored
>on.  What I am looking for is a routine that given an absolute file name
>returns the machine it is stored on in a NFS environment.

	Try the sun-source archives at rice.edu. I think the program
is called 'nfstat'.

In article <435@banyan.UUCP> gil@banyan.com writes:
>Stop. Go back and try to figure out why you think you need to do this.
>Chances are you're looking at the problem from an awkward angle.  The
>whole point of distributed file systems is to free you from worrying
>about _where_ the files "actually" are. Whenever you find yourself

	This is a great idea, but we live in an imperfect world, where
file systems have finite sizes.

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