topic wafl - inodes - .snapshot inodes in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/wafl-inodes-snapshot-inodes/m-p/60904#M14307 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>When I create my first file in a volume, it will get inode 100.</P><P>The .snapshot directory in the volume has inode 67.</P><P>When I start creating snapshots, the first snapshot directory</P><P>has inode 1.</P><P>When i create 100 snapshots, the 100th snapshot has</P><P>inode 100, like my first file in the volume.</P><P></P><P>Does wafl have a seperate inode administration for the .snapshot</P><P>directory? It looks like it is another filesystem, but then, myfirst snapshotted</P><P>file has the same inode as the original file, but that cannot be in</P><P>a different filesystem.</P><P></P><P>I hope you understand my confusion.</P><P></P><P>regards</P><P>peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:01:19 GMT p_w 2025-06-05T07:01:19Z wafl - inodes - .snapshot inodes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/wafl-inodes-snapshot-inodes/m-p/60904#M14307 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>When I create my first file in a volume, it will get inode 100.</P><P>The .snapshot directory in the volume has inode 67.</P><P>When I start creating snapshots, the first snapshot directory</P><P>has inode 1.</P><P>When i create 100 snapshots, the 100th snapshot has</P><P>inode 100, like my first file in the volume.</P><P></P><P>Does wafl have a seperate inode administration for the .snapshot</P><P>directory? It looks like it is another filesystem, but then, myfirst snapshotted</P><P>file has the same inode as the original file, but that cannot be in</P><P>a different filesystem.</P><P></P><P>I hope you understand my confusion.</P><P></P><P>regards</P><P>peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:01:19 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/wafl-inodes-snapshot-inodes/m-p/60904#M14307 p_w 2025-06-05T07:01:19Z Re: wafl - inodes - .snapshot inodes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/wafl-inodes-snapshot-inodes/m-p/60909#M14310 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Your conclusions are the correct. Only the max nr of snapshots = 255, so it ends with inode 255. Snapshots have their own inode table. I dont know how they fixed it, but your conclusion is OK. I suspect that there is a pointer that connects the copy of the root inode to the AFS and starts in a 4k block a new list of inodes that refer to the copies of the root inode.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 May 2011 10:25:39 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/wafl-inodes-snapshot-inodes/m-p/60909#M14310 RonHavenaar 2011-05-25T10:25:39Z