Modern Linux clients identifies the .snapshot directory as a different filesystem, and thus as a different mount point When the snapshot is deleted, clients report stale file handle for .snapshot base...Modern Linux clients identifies the .snapshot directory as a different filesystem, and thus as a different mount point When the snapshot is deleted, clients report stale file handle for .snapshot based sub-mounts Restart of the server resolve the issue but again the next day receiving the same stale file handle issue with the previous day's snapshot which is already deleted: mount command on the Linux host displays a large number of snapshots mounted and is not able to unmount