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Why while increasing volume size, inodes do not increase as well

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Applies to

  • Ontap 9
  • Volume Inodes

Answer

  • Inodes do not increase automatically,
  • Inodes increasment is asynchronous to volume size, if you have enough free space on a volume there is no need to increase the volume if you only need more inodes.

Additional Information

Note: An inode in ONTAP is a pointer to any file or folder within the file system, including Snapshot copies.

 

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