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Accessing snapshot mount points results in a stale file handle

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS

Issue

df -h command from the Linux client returns stale file handle for some snapshot mount points
 
Example:
[root@linuxl datal]# df -h
df: '/path1/snapshot/file1: 572494d9-29/0-11ee-9809-403025423ba2153234085: 2024-02-23 181500': State file handle
df: '/path2/.snapshot/file2: 572494d9-29f0-11ee-9809-dO39ea5423ba_2153234085.2024-03-20_001500': Stae file handle

 

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