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What would happen if storage time changes while editing a file?

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS

Answer

  • Subsequent editing and saving work without problem.
  • After the file is saved, new storage time will be applied to it.
Example 
 
[root@linux mnt]# stat f1
  File: ‘f1’
  Size: 39              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 65536  regular file
Device: 5eh/94d Inode: 12391       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (   99/  nobody)   Gid: (   99/  nobody)
Access: 2024-03-26 00:20:31.536752000 +0000
Modify: 2024-03-26 00:20:31.536757000 +0000
Change: 2024-03-26 00:20:31.536760000 +0000
Birth: -

[root@linux mnt]# vi f1

cluster1::*> date
Node      Date                     Time zone
--------- ------------------------ -------------------------
cluster1-01
          Tue Mar 26 00:27:10 2024 Etc/UTC
cluster1-02
          Tue Mar 26 00:27:10 2024 Etc/UTC
2 entries were displayed.
 
cluster1::*> cluster date modify -node * -dateandtime 202403260010.00
 
cluster1::*> date
Node      Date                     Time zone
--------- ------------------------ -------------------------
cluster1-01
          Tue Mar 26 00:10:02 2024 Etc/UTC
cluster1-02
          Tue Mar 26 00:10:02 2024 Etc/UTC
2 entries were displayed.
 
Save the file and exist 'vi'
 
[root@linux mnt]# stat f1
  File: ‘f1’
  Size: 57              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 65536  regular file
Device: 5eh/94d Inode: 12393       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (   99/  nobody)   Gid: (   99/  nobody)
Access: 2024-03-26 00:10:08.813645000 +0000
Modify: 2024-03-26 00:10:08.813655000 +0000
Change: 2024-03-26 00:10:08.813666000 +0000
Birth: -

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