diff --git a/src/chunks.jl b/src/chunks.jl
index bb90d645..9df045e6 100644
--- a/src/chunks.jl
+++ b/src/chunks.jl
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ function affinity(r::FileRef)
     if haskey(MemPool.who_has_read, r.file)
         Pair{OSProc, UInt64}[OSProc(dref.owner) => r.size for dref in MemPool.who_has_read[r.file]]
     else
-        return Pair{OSProc, UInt64}[]
+        Pair{OSProc, UInt64}[OSProc(MemPool.get_worker_at(r.host)) => r.size]
     end
 end
 
diff --git a/test/array.jl b/test/array.jl
index a2aa3d19..14198fcc 100644
--- a/test/array.jl
+++ b/test/array.jl
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ end
 end
 
 @testset "sort" begin
-    @show x = shuffle(1:10)
+    x = shuffle(1:10)
     X = distribute(x, 4)
     @test collect(sort(X)) == sort(x)
 
@@ -201,8 +201,11 @@ end
     @test aff[1][1] == Dagger.OSProc(myid())
     @test aff[1][2] == sizeof(Int)*10
     @test Dagger.tochunk(x) === x
-    f = MemPool.FileRef("/tmp/d", 1)
-    @test isempty(Dagger.affinity(f))
+    f = MemPool.FileRef("/tmp/d", aff[1][2])
+    aff = Dagger.affinity(f)
+    @test length(aff) == 1
+    @test (aff[1][1]).pid in procs()
+    @test aff[1][2] == sizeof(Int)*10
 end
 
 @testset "show_plan" begin