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Volume space utilization fluctuates when there is no new data being written

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ONTAP 9

Answer

  • While jobs are running, certain features and tasks utilize volume space for metadata storage
  • The expected behavior is for the storage to temporarily occupy a few gigabytes of space during the operations
  • Which is released once the operations are completed, resulting in a variation in the used size

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