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Dell PowerScale OneFS: Writable Snapshots
Executive summary Overview Writable snapshots prerequisites Configuring and managing writable snapshots Monitoring and reporting Writable snapshots and OneFS domains Nested writable snapshots
Overview
Symbolic and hard links with writable snapshots Licensing requirements Writable snapshots performance Writable snapshots and OneFS data services Writable snapshots and data replication Writable snapshots workflows Best practices and considerations Conclusion Technical support and resources

Overview

Overview

  • The nesting of writable snapshots is not permitted in OneFS 9.3 and later releases. An attempt to create a writable snapshot on a subdirectory under an existing writable snapshot will fail with the following CLI command warning output:

    # isi snapshot writable create prod1 /ifs/test/wsnap1/wsnap1-2

    Writable snapshot:/ifs/test/wsnap1 nested below another writable snapshot: Operation not supported