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[RHEL10] mdadm: Can only convert a 2-device array to RAID5

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      [2024-10-28 22:30:55]  INFO: setup the storage raid1
      [2024-10-28 22:30:55]  INFO: free disk is ['/dev/loop0', '/dev/loop1']
      [2024-10-28 22:30:55]  INFO: raid parameter raid_level raid1,  raid_mem ['/dev/loop0', '/dev/loop1'],                    version None,  bitmap internal,                     chunk_size 0                    extra, [BlockDev.ExtraArg (BDExtraArg) instance (0x7fc5e76969f0)
       opt: --write-mostly
       val:
      , BlockDev.ExtraArg (BDExtraArg) instance (0x7fc5e7696930)
       opt: --bitmap-chunk
       val: 128M
      ],                     kwrags, {'size': '3G'}
      Sleeping, wait MD resync
      Sleeping, wait MD resync
      Sleeping, wait MD resync
      Sleeping, wait MD resync
      
      
      
      >>> d1 = "/dev/%s" % o.add_loop()
      /home/bd.gc_hfuw5-loop_test
      >>> d2 = "/dev/%s" % o.add_loop()
      /home/bd.2col18w5-loop_test
      >>> o.bd.md_add("TESTRAID", d1, 0, None)
      True
      
      
      >>> o.bd.md_add("TESTRAID", d1, 3, [o.bd.ExtraArg.new("--level", "5")])
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
        File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/site-packages/gi/overrides/BlockDev.py", line 1031, in md_add
          return _md_add(raid_spec, device, raid_devs, extra)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-bd-utils-exec-error-quark: Process reported exit code 1: mdadm: Can only convert a 2-device array to RAID5
       (0)
      >>> raid=o.bd.md_detail("TESTRAID")
      >>> print(raid.active_devices)
      3
      >>> print(raid.device)
      /dev/md/TESTRAID
      >>> print(raid.failed_devices)
      0
      >>> print(raid.level)
      raid1
      >>> print(raid.raid_devices)
      3
      >>>
      >>> print(raid.total_devices)
      4
      >>>
            
      [root@storageqe-65]# mdadm -D /dev/md/TESTRAID 
      /dev/md/TESTRAID:
                 Version : 1.2
           Creation Time : Mon Oct 28 22:30:55 2024
              Raid Level : raid1
              Array Size : 3145728 (3.00 GiB 3.22 GB)
           Used Dev Size : 3145728 (3.00 GiB 3.22 GB)
            Raid Devices : 3
           Total Devices : 4
             Persistence : Superblock is persistent     Intent Bitmap : Internal       Update Time : Mon Oct 28 22:58:19 2024
                   State : clean 
          Active Devices : 3
         Working Devices : 4
          Failed Devices : 0
           Spare Devices : 1Consistency Policy : bitmap              Name : TESTRAID
                    UUID : cdf991ff:2bda37da:6cf16808:e09298b0
                  Events : 68    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
             2       7        2        0      active sync   /dev/loop2
             1       7        1        1      active sync   /dev/loop1
             3       7        3        2      active sync   /dev/loop3       4     259        5        -      spare   /dev/nvme0n1p1
      [root@storageqe-65]#  

      the raid1 include 3 legs and a spare disk, when takeover to raid5 hit a error

      please have a look if something was wrong here

       

      6.11.0-25.el10.x86_64

      mdadm-4.3-3.el10.x86_64

      libblockdev-3.1.0-8.el10.x86_64

       

       

       

              vtrefny@redhat.com Vojtěch Trefný
              guazhang@redhat.com Guangwu Zhang
              Vojtěch Trefný Vojtěch Trefný
              Guangwu Zhang Guangwu Zhang
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