This is expected behaviour. See the TAN "What Are Snapshots?" http://now.netapp.com/HHG/tanindex/contents/TIP/TIP_213.shtml
Andrew
At 10:49 pm 1/24/99 -0500, Tom Reingold wrote:
Hey!
My user could not copy a snapshot to the original place because "cp" claimed the files are identical. I think cp thinks so because the inode numbers are the same. The files do not have identical contents, so it seems like a serious bug that the filer issued duplicate inode numbers. Am I wrong?
The output belog is wide. Please view it with a wide window.
# ls -il myfile .snapshot/*/myfile 2436244 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 85933 Jan 24 17:50
.snapshot/hourly.0/myfile
2436244 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 85211 Jan 24 15:50
.snapshot/hourly.1/myfile
2436244 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 84223 Jan 24 11:56
.snapshot/hourly.2/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 83436 Jan 24 00:47
.snapshot/hourly.3/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 79270 Jan 23 12:57
.snapshot/hourly.4/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 79270 Jan 23 12:57
.snapshot/hourly.5/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 75104 Jan 23 02:42
.snapshot/hourly.6/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 75104 Jan 23 02:42
.snapshot/hourly.7/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 79270 Jan 23 12:57
.snapshot/nightly.0/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 70938 Jan 22 19:41
.snapshot/nightly.1/myfile
971294 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 62606 Jan 21 22:20
.snapshot/nightly.2/myfile
2436244 -rw-rw---- 1 pete pete 86541 Jan 24 22:24 myfile
Tom Reingold tommy@bell-labs.com http://www.bell-labs.com/~tommy Bell Labs, the Research and Development unit of Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ, 07974-0636 US