File System Type (statfs, sysfs)

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.UUCP
Sat Jun 4 06:19:11 AEST 1988


In article <480 at uniq.UUCP> rjnoe at uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes:
>....  But since none of the Release 3
>code greatly depends on determining whether a given file is remote or local
>(indeed, the objective was to be transparent at the user level), this was
>probably never really checked.

Doesn't release 3.1's "find" have a -local parameter to keep it from
walking into remote filesystems (useful when the other machine is
doing its own backups and disk accounting..)?  There must be some
reliable way to tell the remote mounts.

Les Mikesell



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