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Setting volume access time update and other options?

akw_white — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:32:18 GMT

Hi all

It seems like there a few vol options from 7-mode that I can't work out how to set in 8.2.1 Clustered ONTAP such as no_atime_update.

Is there a cluster shell command to enable this option on a volume?

I also tried "node run <nodename> vol options <volume> no_atime_update on" which returned the result "vol options: 'no_atime_update' option not supported on cluster-mode volume <volume>"

Thanks

Adam

Re: Setting volume access time update and other options?

aborzenkov — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:34:16 GMT

Volume modify -atime-update.

Re: Setting volume access time update and other options?

akw_white — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 01:33:56 GMT

Thanks AB, turns out that wasn't quite sufficient.

As found here http://practical-admin.com/blog/?p=1410 you need to jump into advanced mode to set this option and enter

volume modify -vserver <vserver-name> -volume <volume-name> -atime-update false

to enable no_atime_update. A bit convoluted for such a simple and useful setting.

Cheers

Adam