[WHIRR-721] Improve robustness of volume device detection

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: service/hadoop
• Assignee: Graham Gear
• Reporter: Graham Gear
• Created: 01/May/13 22:08
• Updated: 03/May/13 07:36
• Resolved: 03/May/13 07:36

Description

The current volume device detection does not account for the cloud provider often not reporting the boot device and the new remapping of Xen VPS devices in later kernels (eg RHEL/CentOS 6.1+).