help in finding which machine a file is actually stored on

[The Ancient Programmer]

>In article <8204 at thorin.cs.unc.edu> sunj at 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.

	Wouldn't  "df /absolute/path/name" return the following?
Filesystem	      kbytes  used avail capacity   Mounted on
node_name:filesystem  .....disk statistics....      /where_mounted
^^^^^^^^^
This should tell you what machine the file is actually on.  
Or have I misunderstood your question?



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