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Hi Fabrizio, Yes, the stat request will redirect you to a suitable host. So, you can use that. However, if you need to differentiate between read-only files and writable files, then your only option is to do an open. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Furano" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Andrew Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: "Xrootd Mailing List" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 4:29 AM Subject: Locate for non-existing files (srm stuff) > Hi Andy, > > for the srm stuff story, I am wondering if the stat request (used in the > Locate primitive) is able to give a suitable destination data server for a > copy. I believe not, but anyway, how can we deal with that in the srm > stuff? > > Fabrizio >