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Permission denied when copying a read-only file from local to ONTAP volume

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFSv4.x
  • NFSv4 ACL

Issue

  • NFSv4.x client gets permission denied when copying a read-only file from local to ONTAP UNIX volume
[user1@client1 test]$ echo 'test' > /tmp/test
[user1@client1 test]$ chmod 444 /tmp/test
[user1@client1 test]$ ll /tmp/test
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 users 15 Jan 30 18:07 /tmp/test
[user1@client1 test]$ cp /tmp/test /mnt/vol1/test
cp: failed to close ‘/mnt/vol1/test’: Permission denied
[user1@client1 test]$ ll /mnt/tmp/test/
total 12K
-r--r--r-- 1 user1 users        0 Jan 30 18:27 test
 
  • Packet trace shows that ONTAP returns NFS4ERR_ACCESS to the NFS write call
  • It works when copying a read-write file from local to ONTAP UNIX volume

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