Собственно сабж, никак не получается.Имеем /dev/md0 из 2х дисков
# mdadm --verbose --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=1.2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
при попытке добавить 3й диск, получаю ошибку вида
# mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=3 --add /dev/sdd
mdadm: /dev/md0: could not set level to raid4
В google нашел, что данную ошибку пофиксили в ядре 2.6.35. Обновил ядро - ошибка осталась
# uname -r
3.0.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
В dmesg вижу следущее
md: bind<sdb>
md: bind<sdc>
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
bio: create slab <bio-1> at 1
md/raid0:md0: looking at sdc
md/raid0:md0: comparing sdc(8387584) with sdc(8387584)
md/raid0:md0: END
md/raid0:md0: ==> UNIQUE
md/raid0:md0: 1 zones
md/raid0:md0: looking at sdb
md/raid0:md0: comparing sdb(4193280) with sdc(8387584)
md/raid0:md0: NOT EQUAL
md/raid0:md0: comparing sdb(4193280) with sdb(4193280)
md/raid0:md0: END
md/raid0:md0: ==> UNIQUE
md/raid0:md0: 2 zones
md/raid0:md0: FINAL 2 zones
md/raid0:md0: zone 1
md/raid0:md0: checking sdb ... nope.
md/raid0:md0: checking sdc ... contained as device 0
md/raid0:md0: (8387584) is smallest!.
md/raid0:md0: zone->nb_dev: 1, sectors: 4194304
md/raid0:md0: current zone start: 8387584
md/raid0:md0: done.
md/raid0:md0: md_size is 12580864 sectors.
******* md0 configuration *********
zone0=[sdb/sdc/]
zone offset=0kb device offset=0kb size=4193280kb
zone1=[sdc/]
zone offset=4193280kb device offset=2096640kb size=2097152kb
**********************************md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 6441402368
md0: unknown partition table
async_tx: api initialized (async)
xor: automatically using best checksumming function: generic_sse
generic_sse: 31080.000 MB/sec
xor: using function: generic_sse (31080.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int64x1 1632 MB/s
raid6: int64x2 2339 MB/s
raid6: int64x4 1609 MB/s
raid6: int64x8 1503 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 3800 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 4718 MB/s
raid6: sse2x4 6953 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (6953 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
md/raid:md0: cannot takeover raid0 with more than one zone.
md: md0: raid4 would not accept array
Собственно ЧЯДНТ?