Problem with MySQL 8.0.x and NetApp snapshot folder

[Vito Cavallo]

Hello,
I am migrating old CentOS VMs that are hosted on a NetApp.
They are currently MySQL 5.x and I need to migrate to MySQL 8.0.x and Rocky 8 or 9.

I am installing mysql 8.0.x on the CentOS first, so I can verify all database files are updated and working.


Mysql 8 keeps reading the NetApp .snapshot folder as databases and throwing errors and stopping.

For some reason, this was not an issue in Mysql 5.x.
I have exhausted my research on this and cannot find an answer.
MySQL 5 did have a ignore_db_dirs setting but that has been deprecated.

Has anyone had and solved this issue ?

Thank you.

Vito Cavallo