fix: only mark non-rotational HDDs as SSD#422
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Fixes sr0 incorrectly showing as SSD on RHCOS 4.19. Signed-off-by: David Asulin <dasulin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Asulin <dasulin@redhat.com>
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Problem
Starting with RHCOS 4.19 (possibly other newer kernels), optical drives and some loop devices report rotational=0, causing them to be misclassified as SSD.
RHCOS 4.19+:
RHCOS <= 4.18:
The fix
Only promote devices to SSD when they're actually HDD type devices
This is likely a general kernel behavior change, not RHCOS only, so the fix benefits all Linux distributions.
Possible impact
sr0 stays ODD (fixes the core issue)
loop stays Virtual
Non-rotational sd*/vd*/hd*/xvd* still can be promoted to SSD
nvme*/mmc* unchanged