In message 199906162020.NAA14794@tooting, Guy Harris writes:
Has anyone fond a quick way to touch all CIFS shares and directories on
the
filer to convert the directories immediately to Unicode so all snapshots thereafter are clean?
From UNIX: find /filer_root -name .snapshot -prune -o -name SOMETHING_THAT_WONT_MATCH -print
That works only if your UNIX box is a Linux box using "smbfs" to access the filer (and I have the impression that may not work), or you have some other UNIX client that uses CIFS rather than NFS.
Otherwise, they'll be NFS accesses, which don't cause directory conversion.
NFS access triggers conversion with ONTAP 4.0 or later, unless I'm misreading the 5.3 docs. Check here:
http://now.netapp.com/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel53/html/sag/multi12.htm
Of course this could be wrong, wouldn't be the first error in the 5.3 documentation. BTW, when does NetApp plan on releasing non-ambiguous docs for second level virtual interfaces?
jason
NFS access triggers conversion with ONTAP 4.0 or later, unless I'm misreading the 5.3 docs.
"Data ONTAP 4.0", in the table under "Conversion to Unicode format", refers to the *directory format*, not to the OS the box is running.
What that table means is:
If your appliance is running *ONTAP 5.3[.x]*:
If the access is from CIFS, the directory being accessed is converted to Unicode format, regardless of what format it's in.
If the access is from NFS, the directory being accessed is converted to Unicode format if and only if it's in the "new" format introduced in ONTAP 4.0.
4.0 through 5.2[.x] only convert directories to that "new" format if the access comes from CIFS; NFS-only directories remain in the boring old format introduced by FASware 1.0, so the box don't spend resources generating 8.3 names and the like for directories not being accessed by Microsoft-flavored OSes.
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Jason D. Kelleher