diff --git a/lib/config/config_settings.h b/lib/config/config_settings.h
index e5edf6d2c..2c5e2f8c9 100644
--- a/lib/config/config_settings.h
+++ b/lib/config/config_settings.h
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ cfg_array(devices_preferred_names_CFG, "preferred_names", devices_CFG_SECTION, C
 	"Example:\n"
 	"preferred_names = [ \"^/dev/mpath/\", \"^/dev/mapper/mpath\", \"^/dev/[hs]d\" ]\n")
 
-cfg_array(devices_filter_CFG, "filter", devices_CFG_SECTION, CFG_DEFAULT_UNDEFINED, CFG_TYPE_STRING, NULL, vsn(1, 0, 0), NULL, 0, NULL,
+cfg_array(devices_filter_CFG, "filter", devices_CFG_SECTION, CFG_DEFAULT_COMMENTED, CFG_TYPE_STRING, "#Sa|.*/|", vsn(1, 0, 0), NULL, 0, NULL,
 	"Limit the block devices that are used by LVM commands.\n"
 	"This is a list of regular expressions used to accept or\n"
 	"reject block device path names.  Each regex is delimited\n"
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ cfg_array(devices_filter_CFG, "filter", devices_CFG_SECTION, CFG_DEFAULT_UNDEFIN
 	"Use anchors to be very specific.\n"
 	"filter = [ \"a|^/dev/hda8$|\", \"r|.*/|\" ]\n")
 
-cfg_array(devices_global_filter_CFG, "global_filter", devices_CFG_SECTION, CFG_DEFAULT_UNDEFINED, CFG_TYPE_STRING, NULL, vsn(2, 2, 98), NULL, 0, NULL,
+cfg_array(devices_global_filter_CFG, "global_filter", devices_CFG_SECTION, CFG_DEFAULT_COMMENTED, CFG_TYPE_STRING, "#Sa|.*/|", vsn(2, 2, 98), NULL, 0, NULL,
 	"Limit the block devices that are used by LVM system components.\n"
 	"Because devices/filter may be overridden from the command line,\n"
 	"it is not suitable for system-wide device filtering, e.g. udev\n"