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Can the volume language be changed after creation in ONTAP?

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Applies to

ONTAP 9.7P1 and later

Answer

  • Yes, the volume language can be changed from *.UTF-8 to utf8mb4 in ONTAP 9.7P1 and later.

Note: This is only possible if the current volume language matches *.UTF-8 (such as en_US.UTF-8 or C.UTF-8) and if the new volume language is utf8mb4.

  • Modifying language of snapmirror (regular and sync snapmirror) source and destination volumes is not allowed

For more information, see: Unable to change FlexVol language for SnapMirror source

WARNING

Do not change volume language if the volume was ever accessed by NFS clients, otherwise it will corrupt files created using NFS in the past, or files created with NFS are lost.

 

Additional Information

Does ONTAP 9 support utf8mb4?

 

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