NFS VAAI: Thick provisioned eager zeroed disks created through NFS take up double space
Applies to
- Data ONTAP 8
- ONTAP 9
- VMware
- VAAI
Issue
- When thick provisioned, eager zeroed disks are created through NFS, they take up twice as much space as requested.
EXAMPLE:
Filesystem kbytes used avail reserved Mounted on
/vol/storeA_DR/ 3060164200 1536703196 1523461004 762157916 /vol/storeA_DR/
/vol/storeA_DR/.snapshot 161061272 36912 161024360 0 /vol/storeA_DR/.snapshot