Not able to access particular sub-driectory on NFS share coming from NetApp due to maxdirsize limit.

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Issue

  • When trying to create or touch a file in a particular directory of an NFS mounted share below error is observed.
touch: cannot touch `test': File too large due to maxdirsize limit
  • There is approx 259GB free.

  • Issue is restricted to a particular subdirectory of the NFS share, not the entire share.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
  • NetApp Storage

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