The number of files-used in quota report is larger than file count reported by Windows Explorer

Applies to

• ONTAP 9
• ONTAP System Manager

Issue

• files-used in output of quota report is larger than the number of files displayed by Windows Explorer or dir command
• files used displayed Reports tab in Quotas on System Manager is also larger than the number of files

Example:

quota report shows 4 as file-used in ONTAP.

quota report -vserver hoge -volume fuga -tree piyo  -fields tree,disk-used,disk-limit,files-used      
vserver     volume index               tree disk-used disk-limit files-used
----------- ------ ------------------- ---- --------- ---------- ----------
hoge          fuga        XXXX          piyo  0B        -          4         

But dir command shows 1 as Flie(s) in Windows.

Z:\piyo>dir
 Volume in drive Z is fuga
 Volume Serial Number is 5963-E298

 Directory of Z:\piyo

11/01/2019  06:25 AM    <DIR>          .
11/01/2019  06:17 AM    <DIR>          ..
11/01/2019  06:27 AM                 8 foo.xyz
               1 File(s)              8 bytes
               2 Dir(s)     838,860,800 bytes free