File System Type (statfs, sysfs)

[Tim Roper]

In article <55038 at sun.uucp>, guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> > If you stat(2) a remote file you get the high order bit of st_dev
> > turned on so you can tell that it is remote if you want to.  Also the
> > major number tells which machine it resides on.  And the minor
> > number tells which filesystem on the remote machine the file
> > resides on.
> 
> Note that, as far as I know, none of this is documented anywhere; therefore, it
> should be considered a quirk of the implementation, *not* a documented part of
> the interface.  It happens to work under S5R3, but it may break someday.

It is described in

	%T RFS Architectural Overview
	%A Andrew P. Rifkin et al
	%J USENIX Conference Proceedings
	%C Atlanta, Georgia
	%D June 1986

But, stat(2) in System V.3 Programmer's Reference Manual and stat(ba_os) in
SVID Issue 2 Volume 1 say that st_dev has no significance other than as
input to ustat(2) and ustat(ba_os) respectively.
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