A Linux client creates additional mount points when accessing the .snapshot directory via NFS
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- NFS
- Linux kernel 2.6.18 and later versions
Issue
- Modern Linux clients identifies the
.snapshot
directory as a different filesystem, and thus as a different mount point - When the snapshot is deleted, clients report
stale file handle
for.snapshot
based sub-mounts - Observing stale file handle error on the daily snapshot volume.
- Restart of the server resolve the issue but again the next day receiving the same stale file handle issue with the previous day's snapshot which is already deleted:
mount
command on the Linux host displays a large number of snapshots mounted and is not able to unmount
1.1.1.1:/some_export/cluster/.snapshot/hourly.2015-08-03_0705 on /some-mount/.snapshot/hourly.2015-08-03_0705 type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountproto=,local_lock=none,addr=10.1.100.101)