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Hard links appear as separate files with different inodes

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • CIFS
  • Samba clients

Issue

  • Hardlinks are working
  • Attributes of the hardlinks does not behave as it should:
    • Inode references are not the same
    • Amount of links to the original file is changing from 2 to 1 when updating the content

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