chaney@iglou.com (DANIEL CHANEY) writes:
Hi, long time reader, first time poster, love your list, etc etc etc.
Do max inode counts follow snapshots? That is, if I do a snapshot on Monday, increase the inode counts on Tuesday, wipe my files on Wednesday and bring things back from the snapshot on Thursday, do I still need to increase the inode count as I did on Tuesday?
What sort of "bringing things back" are you talking about here? Copying individual files from a snapshot into the active filing system will assign new inode numbers to them anyway. If you are doing this to so many files that you run out of inodes, then you probably also have a problem with available space.
If you are reverting the whole volume with SnapRestore, then my initial thought was that the maxfiles values would revert as well, but I've found something on now.netapp.com that says that it won't. Anyone done the experiment?
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