My VPS is attached to an SSD, but when checking the drive it says Rotational... Will that get fixed?

When I check whether one of my server’s storage device is an HDD or an SSD, I use the following commands:

Step 1. Get device major:minor numbers:

$ stat /path/to/some/file/on/device
...
Device: fd00h/64768d
...

Step 2. Use the device numbers to find the device under /sys:

$ ls -l /sys/dev/block/7:26
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 15 07:25 /sys/dev/block/7:26 -> ../../devices/virtual/block/loop26

where 7 is the major device number and 26 is the minor. From the above numbers, you can compute these using:

$ expr 64768 / 256              # major
253
$ expr 64768 % 256              # minor
0

Step 3. Find the rotational file

Now, if I look at the ../../devices/virtual/block/loop26 folder, I can search and find a rotational file. But first I rebuild the path properly. This means I want a full path rather than a relative path. As we can see, there are two .. which means we go up two directories. The result is:

/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop26

Lets look inside that folder:

$ ls /sys/devices/virtual/block/loop26
...
queue
...

We see a queue sub-directory, let’s look inside:

$ ls /sys/devices/virtual/block/loop26/queue
...
rotational
...

The rotational file exists, let’s print the content:

$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/block/loop26/queue/rotational
1

The loop device is considered to be a rotational (HDD) device!

IMPORTANT NOTE: In some cases, the queue sub-directory is one or two directories up. So the first ls command may not show it. Try again after removing one sub-directory in your path. Repeat until you find a queue sub-directory or the path is only 3 segments (/sys/devices/virtual in my example).

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So now I have a way to check the rotational file. When I test against my SSD drives on my server at home, I get 0 as expected. The disk is not rotational.

When I check on DigitalOcean, I get a 1 as if the drive in my VPS was a rotational (HDD) file. It should return 0. Just in case, I tested in VirtualBox on my server, and I get the same effect. If I create a disk in my VirtualBox server which is on an SSD, it does not recognize it as an SSD within VirtualBox. So I am thinking that both systems are using the same driver to simulate hard drives within the VPS…

Are there plans to fix this issue at DigitalOcean? I would need to know whether drive A is SSD or HDD and drive B is SSD or HDD and I would prefer not to have to indicate that information manually since this is prone to mistakes over time.