Bug#689605: multipath-tools: no default multipath.conf

[Andreas Pflug]

Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-10
Severity: normal


Since the multipath-tools package includes no standard multipath.conf, multipathd will grab any new block device. This can lead to surprising and hard debug effects.
e.g. attaching a device in a XEN dom0 domain will render the device inaccessible. This corrupts xen-utils-4.1 since xend will attach the boot device locally for pygrub, but can't release it properly because multipathd has it.

I suggest supplying at least a minimal multipath.conf that blacklists the most dangerous devices by default.
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/multipath.conf:
blacklist
{
	devnode "^xvd[0-9a-z]*"
}

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on:
ii  initscripts        2.88dsf-32            scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  kpartx             0.4.8+git0.761c66f-10 create device mappings for partiti
ii  libaio1            0.3.107-7             Linux kernel AIO access library - 
ii  libc6              2.13-33               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.74-4           Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspa
ii  libncurses5        5.7+20100313-5        shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6       6.1-3                 GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base           3.2-23.2squeeze1      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev               164-3                 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

multipath-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages multipath-tools suggests:
pn  multipath-tools-boot          <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information