diff --git a/src/client/hadoop/CephFSInterface.cc b/src/client/hadoop/CephFSInterface.cc
index b8a6a3b..3b330fc 100644
--- a/src/client/hadoop/CephFSInterface.cc
+++ b/src/client/hadoop/CephFSInterface.cc
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ JNIEXPORT jobjectArray JNICALL Java_org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker_ceph_1g
     if (r==-ERANGE) { //expand the buffer
       delete [] buf;
       buflen *= 2;
+      fprintf(stderr, "new buflen: %d\n", buflen);
       buf = new char[buflen];
       continue;
     }
@@ -741,10 +742,18 @@ JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker_ceph_1statfs
  * Returns: an int containing the number of times replicated.
  */
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker_ceph_1replication
-(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jint fh)
+(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jstring j_path)
 {
-  struct ceph_mount_info *cmount = get_ceph_mount_t(env, obj);
-  int replication = ceph_get_file_replication(cmount, (int)fh);
+  //get c-string of path, send off to libceph, release c-string, return
+  const char *c_path = env->GetStringUTFChars(j_path, 0);
+  if (c_path == NULL)
+    return -ENOMEM;
+  ceph_mount_info *cmount = get_ceph_mount_t(env, obj);
+  int fh = 0;
+  fh = ceph_open(cmount, c_path, O_RDONLY, 0);
+  int replication = ceph_get_file_replication(cmount, fh);
+  ceph_close(cmount, fh);
+  env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(j_path, c_path);
   return replication;
 }

diff --git a/src/client/hadoop/org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker.h b/src/client/hadoop/org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker.h
index e1051a7..5585454 100644
--- a/src/client/hadoop/org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker.h
+++ b/src/client/hadoop/org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker.h
@@ -170,10 +170,10 @@ JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker_ceph_1statfs
 /*
  * Class:     org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker
  * Method:    ceph_replication
- * Signature: (I)I
+ * Signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)I
  */
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL Java_org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker_ceph_1replication
-  (JNIEnv *, jobject, jint);
+  (JNIEnv *, jobject, jstring);

 /*
  * Class:     org_apache_hadoop_fs_ceph_CephTalker