On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 14:39 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > Multiple users have requested an easy way to setup blacklists that do > things such as blacklisting all non FC and iSCSI devices. Currently > there is no easy way to do this, without knowing in advance what the > devices are. Looking into the udev property values, I didn't see a > consistent set of values that would worked for all the different > types > of requests like this (which would have allowed us to solve this by > extending the "property" blacklist option to allow comparing values, > instead of just keywords). > > Instead I've opted to allow multipath to blacklist/whitelist devices > by the protocol strings printed by "multipathd: add new protocol path > wildcard". This check happens after multipath checks the "device" > keyword, and before it checks wwid. This gives users an easily > understandible method to set up these types of blacklists, without > needing to know the exact arrays being used. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > libmultipath/blacklist.c | 51 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > libmultipath/blacklist.h | 3 +++ > libmultipath/config.c | 15 ++++++++++++++ > libmultipath/config.h | 2 ++ > libmultipath/dict.c | 14 +++++++++++-- > libmultipath/discovery.c | 5 +++-- > libmultipath/print.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 16 +++++++++++++-- > 8 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> -- Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107 SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
