An inode in ONTAP is a pointer to any file or folder within the file system, including Snapshot copies. Inodes point to blocks that make up a file, and inodes also contain the metadata of the file. Th...An inode in ONTAP is a pointer to any file or folder within the file system, including Snapshot copies. Inodes point to blocks that make up a file, and inodes also contain the metadata of the file. This means that having many inodes in a volume can also use up a non-trivial amount of physical space in addition to the capacity of the actual data as well. If a file is less than 64 bytes, it is stored in the inode itself and does not use additional capacity.
