From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christophe Varoqui Subject: Re: Multipath blacklisted devices Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:21:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4447ED2F.3090505@free.fr> References: <4447CB84.6060804@unibas.ch> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4447CB84.6060804@unibas.ch> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids URZ- AG a =E9crit : > Hi, > > I'm using the latest git version of multipath-tools with a 2.6.16 kerne= l. > Today I've tried to blacklist a scsi device in the multipath.conf file=20 > using the following entry: > devnode "^(sda)[0-9]*" > > This didn't work at all, it seems that multipath doesn't use the=20 > blacklist entries found in multipatch.conf. > I've patched the source code to hardcode that device and this works wel= l. > I've tried to debug the config loading but my C knowledge is too poor=20 > and I haven't been able to find out whats wrong so far. > Any help for debugging would be greatly apreciated, I've tried to=20 > write some code which dumps all entries read from the config file but=20 > it didn't work so far. > > Thanks for your time and great work, > Ars=E8ne > > --=20 > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > It works here :( Try to extract the live blacklist with : # multipathd/multipathd -k"show conf" ... blacklist { devnode ^(sda)[0-9]* devnode ^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]* devnode ^hd[a-z] devnode ^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]* wwid 26353900f02796769 device { vendor IET product A.*A } device { vendor DGC product LUNZ } } ... Regards, cvaroqui