topic Re: File access time in NAS Volumes in ONTAP Discussions

File access time in NAS Volumes

saranraj456 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:26:06 GMT

Hi Guys,

Is there any way to find the file access details for a volume from Storage.I know "ls" will provide the list of files inside volumes, however i need the access time for the Files inside it.

Thanks

Saran

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

ekashpureff — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:47:51 GMT

Saran -

See 'ls -lt -u' or 'ls -l --time=atime'.

Note that there also a 'no atime update' option for NetApp volumes that turns off update of access time.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
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Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

saranraj456 — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:06:27 GMT

Eugene,

Will this command work in 7-mode ? .

Also, i see options for running the' ls -lt ' options in java shell (java netapp.cmds.jsh) . However, i couldnt find able to run the options as well

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

ekashpureff — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:49:35 GMT

Saran -

Run it from a Linux/Unix host that's mounting the NFS export.

How old of a 7-Mode version are you running ?

If you have the Java shell you might still have the native 'filestats' command.

See the man page for it...

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

saranraj456 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:48:54 GMT

We have newer version of ontap,i am unable to find java shell in any filer , predominantly all the filers are running in ontap 8 version.

I would like to get the access time information from Storage rather from the server side.

Thanks

Saran

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

ekashpureff — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:17:17 GMT

Saran -

The Java shell was deprecated with ONTAP 8.

There was a memory leak that was a bad thing.

The 7-mode command map shows no C-mode command for 'filestats'.

Only way I know to see access time is from a client ...

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

saranraj456 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:04:04 GMT

Thanks Eugene!!

does Filestats command work on ontap version 8 (7 mode )?

Re: File access time in NAS Volumes

ekashpureff — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:21:51 GMT

Saran -

I don't think so.

Think it was based on the Java shell, so it was taken out.

It was there back in 7.3.x ...

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,