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SnapLock CHOWN on File fails with "Read-only file system"

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.x
  • SnapLock
  • Write once Read Many(WORM)
  • Unix

Issue

Attempting to change the Owner of a file in a SnapLock NFS share fails:
 
[root@centos1 SLE]# chown root SLtest.txt
chown: changing ownership of ‘sltest3.txt’: Read-only file system

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