Hi,
We are working with NAS Snapshots on FAS2552, OnTap 8.3.2 .
Once the Volume snapshots are taken the Snapshots are NFS mounted on a host from where the contents are copied to a secondary storage. At this point we are observing that the inode number of files are changing in different snapshots. For e.g., a file F1 under snapshot 1 is different than the one under snapshot 2. Interestingly this file is not touched at all between the snapshots.
More so, this behavior is observed only when the snapshot is mounted on NFS v3.
See the below outputs -
----- NFS Version 3 --------
10.xx.xx.147:/demo_nas_vol1 on /ver3_mnt type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,....addr=10.xx.xx.147)
[root@nfshost ~]# stat -c %i /ver3_mnt/.snapshot/snap1_for_inodeTest/fileone.txt
858188230
[root@nfshost ~]# stat -c %i /ver3_mnt/.snapshot/snap2_for_inodeTest/fileone.txt
858188486
---- NFS Version 4 -----
10.xx.xx.147:/demo_nas_vol1 on /ver4_mnt type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,....addr=10.xx.xx.147)
[root@nfshost ~]# stat -c %i /ver4_mnt/.snapshot/snap1_for_inodeTest/fileone.txt
13510
[root@nfshost ~]# stat -c %i /ver4_mnt/.snapshot/snap2_for_inodeTest/fileone.txt
13510
So my question is -
1. Is this expected behavior
2. What can be done to have consistent behavior