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Bug 1221571 - aarch64: md-create fails to create Linux md (RAID) device
Summary: aarch64: md-create fails to create Linux md (RAID) device
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libguestfs
Version: 7.1
Hardware: aarch64
OS: Unspecified
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-14 11:42 UTC by Hu Zhang
Modified: 2015-09-23 15:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-09-23 15:21:57 UTC
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Description Hu Zhang 2015-05-14 11:42:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
"md-create" fails to create Linux md (RAID) device. This works well on rhel7.1-x86_64.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.28.1-1.23.aa7a.aarch64
kernel-3.19.0-0.75.aa7a.aarch64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create three images.
# qemu-img create -f raw gs-md1.img 5G
Formatting 'gs-md1.img', fmt=raw size=5368709120
# qemu-img create -f raw gs-md2.img 5G
Formatting 'gs-md2.img', fmt=raw size=5368709120
# qemu-img create -f raw gs-md3.img 5G
Formatting 'gs-md3.img', fmt=raw size=5368709120

2. # guestfish
><fs> add gs-md1.img
><fs> add gs-md2.img                                                                                      
><fs> add gs-md3.img                                                                                      
><fs> run                                                                                                
 100% ⟦▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒⟧ 00:00

3. create Linux md (RAID) device
><fs> md-create md11 "/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc" missingbitmap:0x4 chunk:8192 level:raid6                
libguestfs: error: md_create: mdadm: md11: mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata                      
mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Invalid argument                                                                    

Actual results:
Described as step.3.

Expected results:
"md-create" can create Linux md (RAID) device successfully and can get the md info like below.                    
><fs> list-md-devices                                                                                    
/dev/md127

Additional info:
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-05-15 15:33:32 UTC 
One line reproducer:

guestfish -N disk:5G -N disk:5G -N disk:5G \
  md-create md11 "/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc" missingbitmap:0x4 chunk:8192 level:raid6

The error is reproducible on Rawhide/aarch64 too.

I believe this is caused by the larger page size on aarch64.  Page
size on aarch64 is 64K, whereas on x86 it is 4K.

If you increase the chunk: parameter to 65536, then the error
goes away.  ie This command works fine (on Rawhide/aarch64):

guestfish -N disk:5G -N disk:5G -N disk:5G \
  md-create md11 "/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc" missingbitmap:0x4 chunk:65536 level:raid6

So this is either NOTABUG or a bug in mdadm depending on your
viewpoint.
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-09-23 15:21:57 UTC 
Closing NOTABUG per comment 2.  It's a limitation of mdadm when
used with a large (64K) page size as found on aarch64.
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