topic Re: Creating Qtrees in Directories or Subdirectories? in ONTAP Discussions

Creating Qtrees in Directories or Subdirectories?

DidierW — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:38:01 GMT

Hello,

We are using CIFS SVMs with volumes that have the ntfs securitystyle.

f.ex.: volume1/MyJunctionPath/

We would like to use Qtrees for example with quotas but as far as I understood you can only create Qtrees at the root of the volume.

f.ex:

/vol/volume1/Qtree1

/vol/volume1/Qtree2

etc

Isn't it possible to create or use Qtrees in Directories or subdirectories?

f.ex.: like this?

/vol/volume1/Departement1Directory/Qtree1

/vol/volume1/Departement1Directory/Qtree2

/vol/volume1/Departement2Directory/Qtree3

/vol/volume1/Departement2Directory/SubDirectoryX/Qtree4

etc

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Regards,

Didier

donny_lang — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:51:22 GMT

I tested this quickly in my lab and it does not appear possible to create qtrees below the root of the volume (running 9.5P6).

DidierW — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 09:44:34 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

Yes it doesn't work too on 9.6sp4.

Sadly ... this would have been a very nice feature ....

GidonMarcus — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:29:02 GMT

Hi.

Quick tip - you can create symbollink/widelink into a dedicated qtree from any location in the share...

it's not so clean... but it's an option...

YeKyaw — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:27:30 GMT

What I can think is using volume instead of qtrees. Use subdirectory as a junction for the volume.