From ONTAP 9.2 and later, the values are changed. The default number of watch post slots increases from 8 to 163. The maximum value of the bootarg.watch.max_concurrent_posts bootarg increases from 96 ...From ONTAP 9.2 and later, the values are changed. The default number of watch post slots increases from 8 to 163. The maximum value of the bootarg.watch.max_concurrent_posts bootarg increases from 96 to 2048. Some applications might fail if the value of bootarg.watch.max_concurrent_posts sets too low. Run the following command to change the value to match application's requirement: node run -node * bootargs set bootarg.watch.max_concurrent_posts < new value >