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Touch command fails with Operation not permitted

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NFS

Issue

Using the touch command to update the times of a file fails with "Operation not permitted".
Linux:~/tmp
$ ls -ald temp1
drwxrwxr-x 2 owner users 4096 Jun  3 15:34 temp1

Linux:~/tmp
$ touch -r ./temp temp1
touch: setting times of ‘temp1’: Operation not permitted

 

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