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What are the Wafliron phases

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  • ONTAP 9
  • Wafliron

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The three phases of a Wafliron scan are:

Phase 1: Mount

  • ONTAP mounts the inconsistent WAFL file system.  To allow faster access to clients, Wafliron limits scanning to key metadata.
  • Checks aggregate metadata associated with each FlexVol volume contained in that aggregate, free space metadata, and Snapshot copy sanity.
  • The only status provided during this phase is a message to console logging the start of wafliron. The progress cannot be monitored during this phase.

Phase 2: File system scan

  • Metadata is checked on-demand (based on client access) and also through background scans. 
  • Due to on-demand scanning, users may see increased latency during this phase.
  • Progress can be monitored

Phase 3: Completion

  • Performs clean-up tasks such as:
    • Finding lost blocks
    • Verifying used blocks
    • Deleting status files
    • Marking file system consistent

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