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ONTAP DF command does not report used size correctly for volumes with Windows sparse files

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Space accounting
  • Windows sparse files

Issue

A volume hosting a sparse file, like a Microsoft SQL database, reports its physical used size correctly with volume show-space and volume show-footprint but not with df command.
 
  • volume show-footprint output:

Volume : VOl1_HyV_SQL

Feature                                           Used      Used%
--------------------------------      ----------------      -----
Volume Data Footprint                           4.25TB         7%
Flexible Volume Metadata                        27.0GB         0%
Delayed Frees                                    359GB         1%

Total                                           4.63TB         8%
 
 
  • volume show-space output :

Volume : VOl1_HyV_SQL

Feature                                           Used      Used%
--------------------------------      ----------------      -----
User Data                                       56.5TB        94%
Filesystem Metadata                             4.01GB         0%
Inodes                                          6.84MB         0%
Deduplication                                   4.00KB         0%
Quota Metafiles                                 20.0KB         0%
Total                                       >>> 56.6TB <<<    94%
Total Physical Used                             4.25TB         7%
Logical Used                                    61.9TB       103%
Logical Available                               3.39TB         6%
 
 
  • df -h output:
 
Filesystem                     Total Size  used     avail   capacity
/vol/VOl1_HyV_SQL/   60.00t      56.61t   3.39t   94%
 
 

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