A drive is a drive: NVMe namespaces fold into their controller

An Apple SSD presents three namespaces and the kernel lists each as a whole disk, so the
dashboard was showing one drive as three. The Disks page has always folded them; now the
dashboard, the Top tab and the disk.* sensors do too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Mitchell-Johnson
2026-09-22 09:11:03 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 5761ee09db
commit 4b255fe63f
4 changed files with 100 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -715,10 +715,53 @@ func (c *Collector) disks(dt float64) []Disk {
c.prevDisk[name] = [3]uint64{rd, wr, ticks}
out = append(out, d)
}
out = foldNVMe(out)
sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Name < out[j].Name })
return out
}
var nsRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^(nvme\d+)n\d+$`)
// foldNVMe merges nvme0n1, nvme0n2, … into the drive they are: one controller presenting
// several namespaces, which the kernel lists as whole disks apiece. An Apple SSD shows three —
// the 466 GiB of storage and two of firmware, a few MiB each — and a page that lists disks was
// listing all three as separate drives. The Disks page has always folded them (internal/storage
// does the same); this is what the dashboard, the Top tab and the disk.* sensors read.
//
// Rates add up across namespaces. Busy does not: they share one controller, so the time it
// spent working is the longest of them, never the sum.
func foldNVMe(devs []Disk) []Disk {
byCtrl := map[string]int{}
out := devs[:0]
for _, d := range devs {
m := nsRe.FindStringSubmatch(d.Name)
if m == nil {
out = append(out, d)
continue
}
ctrl := m[1]
if i, ok := byCtrl[ctrl]; ok {
out[i].Size += d.Size
out[i].ReadBps = round1(out[i].ReadBps + d.ReadBps)
out[i].WriteBps = round1(out[i].WriteBps + d.WriteBps)
if d.UtilPct > out[i].UtilPct {
out[i].UtilPct = d.UtilPct
}
if out[i].Temp == 0 {
out[i].Temp = d.Temp
}
continue
}
d.Name = ctrl
if mdl := strings.TrimSpace(readStr("/sys/class/nvme/" + ctrl + "/model")); mdl != "" {
d.Model = mdl
}
byCtrl[ctrl] = len(out)
out = append(out, d)
}
return out
}
// ---- filesystems ----
// Kernel/virtual filesystems that aren't storage. Anything else that's mounted is