NetApp volume Language

Volume Language

Every volume has a language. The storage system uses a character set appropriate to the language for the following items on that volume:

•  File names
• File access

The language of the root volume is used for the following items:

•  System name
•  CIFS share names
•  NFS user and group names
•  CIFS user account names
•  Domain name
•  Console commands and command output
•  Access from CIFS clients that don’t support Unicode
•  Reading the following files:
•  /etc/quotas
•  /etc/usermap.cfg
• the home directory definition file

You are strongly advised to set all volumes to have the same language as the root volume, and to set the volume language at volume creation time. Changing the language of an existing volume can cause some files to become inaccessible.