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Expand Up @@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ with e.g. `ls -li`.

==== Reading from remote network volumes

WARNING: The file input does not support reading from network shares. It can work, but
it is not extensively tested. We recommend using Filebeat with `filestream` input.

The file input is not thoroughly tested on remote filesystems such as NFS,
Samba, s3fs-fuse, etc, however NFS is occasionally tested. The file size as given by
the remote FS client is used to govern how much data to read at any given time to
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