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B2Bi Application Unable to Delete .nfsXXXX Files

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS
  • RHEL

Issue

  • After an infrastructure, storage, or client-side change, an application may continue to successfully read files from an NFS-mounted directory but fail when attempting to delete them.
Line 7185: 2026-08-17 14:26:25,769 - ERROR [Worker15-241178] (FileSystemClientUtil) - Failed to delete file /dir/.ready/.nfs000000000108fd9d0016a5d9 (attempts=10)
  • The files failing to delete had names like .nfsXXXX, which are temporary files created by the NFS client layer.

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