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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: Help with NFS file handles
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:41:16 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <1dp6pcINNdpd@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Nov7.221718.9368@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Keywords: BFS, file handle
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- In article <1992Nov7.221718.9368@hubcap.clemson.edu> ksundar@hubcap.clemson.edu (Komal Sundaram) writes:
- >I am trying to map NFS file handles to file names on the NFS server.
- >A program called "showfh" exists but it needs eight parameters and
- >there is no documentation on what these parameters are? Can any
- >NFS gurus help?
-
- A file handle is eight words long, and the eight parameters are the hex
- representations of those eight words. Normally this is used when the
- kernel includes a file handle in an NFS error message; you just use the
- file handle from the error message.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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