Shyh-Wei Luan wrote:
> 
> On Oct 31,  7:33pm, Chris Cowan wrote:
> 
> > Most likely, the cell administrators have a cron job configured under
> > bos to clone the *.backup volumes
> > on a daily basis.   Look at the "vos backup" command for more info.
> > Do a "bos status .... -noa" against some of the file servers.   You
> > should be able to see this
> > cron'ed procedure.
> >
> > This would account for the 1 access per day pattern, that you are
> > observing.
> 
> I did an experiment creating a backup volume, and it did not increase the
> access count.  From a cursory look at the src, the backup volume cration
> process does not go through the same vnode access routine that would bump the
> access count.  I don't think it should.
> 
> Shyh-Wei

You may want to still look at the bos configuration of the servers in
question.
There may still be a cron job there which is creating this.

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