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Default ashift for Amazon EC2 NVMe devices

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Default ashift for Amazon EC2 NVMe devices

Add a default 4 KiB ashift for Amazon EC2 NVMe devices on instances with
NVMe ephemeral devices, such as the types c5d, f1, i3 and m5d.
As per the official documentation [1] a 4096 byte blocksize should be
used to match the underlying hardware.

The string was identified via:

$ sudo sginfo -M /dev/nvme0n1

INQUIRY response (cmd: 0x12)

Device Type 0
Vendor: NVMe
Product: Amazon EC2 NVMe
Revision level:

$ lsblk -io KNAME,TYPE,SIZE,MODEL
KNAME TYPE SIZE MODEL
nvme0n1 disk 442.4G Amazon EC2 NVMe Instance Storage

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/

    storage-optimized-instances.html
    Retrived 2018-07-03

Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <guss80@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Troels Nørgaard <tnn@tradeshift.com>
Closes #7676

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Troels Nørgaard <tnn@tradeshift.com>Authored on Jul 6 2018, 11:15 PM
Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>Committed on Jul 6 2018, 11:15 PM
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Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> committed rG94370f595597: Default ashift for Amazon EC2 NVMe devices (authored by Troels Nørgaard <tnn@tradeshift.com>).Jul 6 2018, 11:15 PM