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[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On aarch64 we are falling into the DS_MAYBE from [1] trap. While I do 
not see any particular reason not to have a
aarch64) :;;

case to make this deterministic on aarch64 it does ultimately only work 
as long as what we are doing sticks to those architectures.
As such I'd really like to get a better understanding why DS_MAYBE 
exists. The way I see it it let's ds-identify kind of bail out and pass 
the responsibility of identifying a data source to cloud-init by 
enabling cloud-init.target.
And this is where we are tripping over because we check if cloud-init 
got enabled and if it did we skip other stuff. But in this case we need 
other stuff to happen.
So instead of checking on whether or not cloud-init got enabled would it 
make more sense to check what is in /run/cloud-init/cloud-id?
If it contains "none" do our special stuff?

Thanks,
Robert

[1] 
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/tools/ds-identify#L1368
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