4.2.2. Blacklisting By Device Name

You can blacklist device types by device name so that they will not be grouped into a multipath device by specifying a devnode entry in the devnode_blacklist section of the configuration file.

The following example shows the lines in the configuration file that would blacklist all SCSI devices, since it blacklists all sd* devices.

devnode_blacklist {
       devnode "^sd[a-z]"
}

devnode_blacklist {
       devnode "^sd[a-z]"
}

You can use a devnode entry in the blacklist section of the configuration file to specify individual devices to blacklist rather than all devices of specific type; this is not recommended, however. Unless it is statically mapped by udev rules, there is no guarantee that a specific device will have the same name on reboot. For example, a device name could change from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb on reboot.

By default, the following devnode entries are compiled in the default blacklist; the devices that these entries blacklist do not generally support DM-Multipath.

blacklist {
       devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
       devnode "^hd[a-z]"
       devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*"
}

blacklist {
       devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
       devnode "^hd[a-z]"
       devnode "^cciss!c[0-9]d[0-9]*"
}