Sorry - I gave an internal-only URL - please use:

http://now.netapp.com/knowledge/contents/TIP/TIP_213.shtml

Andrew

>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
>>
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