topic Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths in Network and Storage Protocols

Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:45:08 GMT

I am receiveing below messages intermitently.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:39 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:wafl.vol.file.guarantee.replica:info]: Space for replica volume 'odp' is not guaranteed. Please change the guarantee option to 'volume' or 'none'.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:44 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.activateEntries:info]: CIFS: Activating CIFS home directory paths: attempt to re-integrate any CIFS home directory paths that reside on enabled volume.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:44 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.badEntry:error]: CIFS: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths. Homedir path doesn't exist, discarding this entry.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:44 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.activateEntries:info]: CIFS: Activating CIFS home directory paths: Although invalid or duplicate homedir path entries were detected, some homedir paths have been successfully made available.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:48 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.activateEntries:info]: CIFS: Activating CIFS home directory paths: attempt to re-integrate any CIFS home directory paths that reside on enabled volume.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:48 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.badEntry:error]: CIFS: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths. Homedir path doesn't exist, discarding this entry.

Tue Jan 21 07:11:48 CET [FRAKBPOSAN01:cifs.homedir.activateEntries:info]: CIFS: Activating CIFS home directory paths: Although invalid or duplicate homedir path entries were detected, some homedir paths have been successfully made available.

Checked cifs share status, everything working fine. What could be the issue ? Can anyone tell me

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:48:08 GMT

Shailesh -

Auto home dir mapping automagicly maps a user to a share for their home directory.

See the /etc/cifs_homedir.cfg file for a vol0 entry.

There's also the 'cfis homedir' command.

See also the File Access and Protocols Management Guide documentation.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:59:41 GMT

Current status

FRAKBPOSAN01> cifs homedir

/vol/SWLibrary

/vol/SWLibrary/SWLibrary

/vol/vol0

FRATBPOSAN01*> cifs homedir

/vol/vol0

With Sincere Regards,

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:03:53 GMT

But, still we receive errors messages as previous

Not sure what is the actual cause or there is some bug which hits

From: Vaidya, Shailesh

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Subject: RE: - Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

Current status

FRAKBPOSAN01> cifs homedir

/vol/SWLibrary

/vol/SWLibrary/SWLibrary

/vol/vol0

FRATBPOSAN01*> cifs homedir

/vol/vol0

With Sincere Regards,

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:13:08 GMT

Shailesh -

The error sez 'Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths. Homedir path doesn't exist, discarding this entry.'

rdfile /etc/cifs_homedir.cfg

Look for an entry of /vol/vol0/vol, and remove it.

Best practice - I wouldn't keep any home dirs on vol0, though there is a default cifs share there.

I usually tell students to remove it right after cifs setup.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:20:05 GMT

PFA the output of /etc/cifs homedir.cfg

What action I need to do ?

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:23:41 GMT

No entry found as of /etc/vol0/vol

Please find below output of cfg file

This file contains the path(s) used by the filer to determine if a
CIFS user has a home directory. See the System Administrator's Guide
for a full description of this file and a full description of the
CIFS homedir feature.

There is a limit to the number of paths that may be specified.
Currently that limit is 1000.
Paths must be entered one per line.

After editing this file, use the console command "cifs homedir load"
to make the filer process the entries in this file.

Note that the "#" character is valid in a CIFS directory name.
Therefore the "#" character is only treated as a comment in this
file if it is in the first column.

Two example path entries are given below.
/vol/vol0/users1
/vol/vol1/users2

/vol

#/vol/SWLibrary

#/vol/SWLibrary/SWLibrary

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Subject: RE: - Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

PFA the output of /etc/cifs homedir.cfg

What action I need to do ?

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:25:08 GMT

Shailesh -

I didn't see any attached /etc/cifs homedir.cfg.

Copy and paste ?

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:31:10 GMT

Shailesh -

It's the entry for /vol in the file that's causing your troubles, I think.

All the rest of it is the standard default file, though every line should be commented out with a # char.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:04:29 GMT

Hi,

What is the impact if I commented the line

§ /vol ?

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:22:12 GMT

Shailesh -

The impact should be that you stop getting the error messages.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:27:17 GMT

All our cifs shares starts from /vol, in case I comment /vol, then cifs share will not be accessible

I think this is the impact, which may lead to production loss.

Your views ?

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:47:25 GMT

Shailesh -

Auto home dir mapping is seperate from your other defined cifs shares, which you can see with the 'cifs shares' command.

All path names start with /vol, the root of the file system.

No, this will not turn off all you other cifs shares.

Issue the 'cifs homedir load' command after you've done the comment on the file to load the changes.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Senior Consultant, K&H Research http://www.khresear.ch/

Senior Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:54:53 GMT

Hi,

I commented /vol and run cifs homedir load. Will keep monitor for any issues

Status

FRAXXXXXXXXX*> cifs homedir load

FRAXXXXXXXXX *> cifs homedir

/vol/vol0

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

SHAILESHVAIDYA — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:14:53 GMT

Now didn’t seen those bad entry errors messages but now receiving every hour below messages

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/avon no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/cott_esb no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/odp no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/awi_esb no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/skf no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/agrana no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/ORABCK_CENTRAL no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/esb_agrana no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/wb no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/odp_esb no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/ORABCK_NBC no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/aes no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:44 CEST : The exported path vfiler0:/syngenta no longer exists.

Mon Apr 21 09:33:47 CEST : Reverting volume ODPREP to a previous snapshot.

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Subject: RE: - Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

Hi,

I commented /vol and run cifs homedir load. Will keep monitor for any issues

Status

FRAXXXXXXXXX*> cifs homedir load

FRAXXXXXXXXX *> cifs homedir

/vol/vol0

Re: Bad entry /vol/vol0/vol while processing home directory paths

ekashpureff — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:53:08 GMT

Shailesh -

There's probably some entries in /etc/exports that you need to clean up too ...

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff

Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff

Senior NetApp Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/

(P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)