Drive letter performance exclusion question

[tmuster2k 22]

I have a drive letter that I need to exclude from scanning. I wanted to add for example  e:\*  but when i do this in my Policy for Performance exclusions it doesn't like it and shows in red. If I do  e:\*.  then it will go through. Will this wildcard make sure that no files will get scanned in real time?  

[Marcos 4,718]

It is not possible to exclude whole drives for security reasons. Could you please elaborate more on the use case?

[tmuster2k 22]

1 hour ago, Marcos said:

It is not possible to exclude whole drives for security reasons. Could you please elaborate more on the use case?

@Marcos Please reference this web page >> https://helpdesk.egnyte.com/hc/en-us/articles/218926917

NOTE: customer did process exclusions for EgnyteClient.exe, EgnyteDrive.exe, EgnyteSyncService.exe, EgnyteUpdate.exe  in the policy but the article is suggesting exclusion of the whole drive letter for Egnyte drive letter. I am not familiar with this program as it is something the customer implemented a while back. This link has info on what it does >> https://www.egnyte.com/blog/2021/02/12780evaluating-mysql-recursive-cte-at-scale/?_ga=2.213699793.418197318.1618429060-2050841226.1618429060

Based on what this program does, do the process exclusion should suffice? 

[Marcos 4,718]

I'd recommend trying process exclusions. Generally exclusions are not a panacea to prevent issues 100% since clashes may occur before exclusions are evaluated so without a test it's impossible to predict what could happen.