Did you recently change the performance data option ?

That's the once that writes to the cm file
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Dan Finn <dan_j_finn@yahoo.com> wrote:
filer> options autosupport
autosupport.cifs.verbose     off        
autosupport.content          complete   (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.doit             DONT       
autosupport.enable           on         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
option autosupport.from: can not be read, command terminated (code=0xffffffff)
autosupport.from             unknown    (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.local.nht_data.enable off        (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.local.performance_data.enable off        (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.mailhost         mail-relay-server (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.minimal.subject.id hostname   (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.nht_data.enable  on         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.noteto                      (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.partner.to                  (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.performance_data.doit DONT       
autosupport.performance_data.enable on         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.periodic.tx_window 1h         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.retry.count      15         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.retry.interval   4m         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.enable   on         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.proxy               (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.to       autosupport@netapp.com (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.transport https      (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.support.url      support.netapp.com/asupprod/post/1.0/postAsup (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.throttle         on         (value might be overwritten in takeover)
autosupport.to               myemail@domain.com (value might be overwritten in takeover)


From: Chaim Rieger <chaim.rieger@gmail.com>
To: Dan Finn <dan_j_finn@yahoo.com>; "toasters@teaparty.net" <toasters@teaparty.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Strange error when running autosupport.doit

Options autosupport please
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Dan Finn <dan_j_finn@yahoo.com> wrote:
I noticed that when I run an autosupport.doit I get the following error:

Thu Mar 15 15:39:16 MDT [na04: asup.general.file.create.failed:error]: AutoSupport file (/mroot/etc/log/.cm_stats_hourly_done) was unable to be written to the file spool subdirectory.

But the autosupport email still makes it out and looks good.  I deleted everything under /etc/log/autosupport and I also tested that I could create the file that is mentioned in the error manually as root, no issues there.

Anyone else ever seen this before?