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EC2 disks all identified as SSD. #76

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On an EC2 instance, disko identifies both SSD and HDD as SSD.

Here is an example, from a c1.medium:

  • xvda is an 8GiB volume type gp2
  • xvdc is a swap volume
  • xvdd is a instance store (ephemeral0)
  • xvdf is a 1GiB volume type standard

Block device mappings are:

$ u=http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/block-device-mapping/; 
$ for x in $(curl --silent $u); do echo $x=$(curl --silent $u/$x); done
ami=/dev/sda1
ephemeral0=sdd
root=/dev/sda1
swap=sdc


$ ./demo/demo disk scan
{
  "xvda": {
    "name": "xvda",
    "path": "/dev/xvda",
    "size": 8589934592,
    "sectorSize": 512,
    "type": "SSD",
    "attachment": "UNKNOWN",
    "partitions": {
      "1": {
        "start": 1048576,
        "last": 8589917695,
        "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "type": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000083",
        "name": "",
        "number": 1
      }
    },
    "table": "MBR",
    "udevInfo": {
      "name": "xvda",
      "sysPath": "/devices/vbd-768/block/xvda",
      "symLinks": null,
      "properties": {
        "DEVNAME": "/dev/xvda",
        "DEVPATH": "/devices/vbd-768/block/xvda",
        "DEVTYPE": "disk",
        "ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE": "dos",
        "ID_PART_TABLE_UUID": "fe3a9f65",
        "MAJOR": "202",
        "MINOR": "0",
        "SUBSYSTEM": "block",
        "TAGS": ":systemd:",
        "USEC_INITIALIZED": "2944484"
      }
    }
  },
  "xvdc": {
    "name": "xvdc",
    "path": "/dev/xvdc",
    "size": 939524096,
    "sectorSize": 512,
    "type": "SSD",
    "attachment": "UNKNOWN",
    "partitions": {},
    "table": "NONE",
    "udevInfo": {
      "name": "xvdc",
      "sysPath": "/devices/vbd-51744/block/xvdc",
      "symLinks": [
        "disk/by-uuid/3875a330-8e81-4db6-9319-7c1dbe5deff0"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "DEVLINKS": "/dev/disk/by-uuid/3875a330-8e81-4db6-9319-7c1dbe5deff0",
        "DEVNAME": "/dev/xvdc",
        "DEVPATH": "/devices/vbd-51744/block/xvdc",
        "DEVTYPE": "disk",
        "ID_FS_TYPE": "swap",
        "ID_FS_USAGE": "other",
        "ID_FS_UUID": "3875a330-8e81-4db6-9319-7c1dbe5deff0",
        "ID_FS_UUID_ENC": "3875a330-8e81-4db6-9319-7c1dbe5deff0",
        "ID_FS_VERSION": "1",
        "MAJOR": "202",
        "MINOR": "32",
        "SUBSYSTEM": "block",
        "TAGS": ":systemd:",
        "USEC_INITIALIZED": "3153128"
      }
    }
  },
  "xvdd": {
    "name": "xvdd",
    "path": "/dev/xvdd",
    "size": 365041287168,
    "sectorSize": 512,
    "type": "SSD",
    "attachment": "UNKNOWN",
    "partitions": {},
    "table": "NONE",
    "udevInfo": {
      "name": "xvdd",
      "sysPath": "/devices/vbd-51760/block/xvdd",
      "symLinks": [
        "disk/by-uuid/8875aa95-01ad-4133-a2ae-237f49b13a8c"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "DEVLINKS": "/dev/disk/by-uuid/8875aa95-01ad-4133-a2ae-237f49b13a8c",
        "DEVNAME": "/dev/xvdd",
        "DEVPATH": "/devices/vbd-51760/block/xvdd",
        "DEVTYPE": "disk",
        "ID_FS_TYPE": "ext3",
        "ID_FS_USAGE": "filesystem",
        "ID_FS_UUID": "8875aa95-01ad-4133-a2ae-237f49b13a8c",
        "ID_FS_UUID_ENC": "8875aa95-01ad-4133-a2ae-237f49b13a8c",
        "ID_FS_VERSION": "1.0",
        "MAJOR": "202",
        "MINOR": "48",
        "SUBSYSTEM": "block",
        "TAGS": ":systemd:",
        "USEC_INITIALIZED": "2941507"
      }
    }
  },
  "xvdf": {
    "name": "xvdf",
    "path": "/dev/xvdf",
    "size": 1073741824,
    "sectorSize": 512,
    "type": "SSD",
    "attachment": "UNKNOWN",
    "partitions": {},
    "table": "NONE",
    "udevInfo": {
      "name": "xvdf",
      "sysPath": "/devices/vbd-51792/block/xvdf",
      "symLinks": null,
      "properties": {
        "DEVNAME": "/dev/xvdf",
        "DEVPATH": "/devices/vbd-51792/block/xvdf",
        "DEVTYPE": "disk",
        "MAJOR": "202",
        "MINOR": "80",
        "SUBSYSTEM": "block",
        "TAGS": ":systemd:",
        "USEC_INITIALIZED": "2085116822"
      }
    }
  }
}

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