just tried creating a raid5 it was supposed to be 2180 GB but mdadm -D /dev/md0 reports 131.81 GiB looks like it's still not supported ? (kernel 2.6.9-ac11 and mdadm 1.8.0)
]# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -c 256 -l 5 -n 14 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdn1 /dev/sdo1
<..>
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
[root@storage etc]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid0] [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 sdo1[14] sdn1[12] sdm1[11] sdl1[10] sdk1[9] sdj1[8] sdi1[7] sdh1[6] sdg1[5] sdf1[4] sde1[3] sdd1[2] sdc1[1] sdb1[0]
2285700352 blocks level 5, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [14/13] [UUUUUUUUUUUUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (56064/175823104) finish=156.6min speed=18688K/sec
unused devices: <none>
[root@storage etc]# mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Sun Nov 28 21:15:32 2004
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 138216704 (131.81 GiB 141.53 GB)
Device Size : 175823104 (167.68 GiB 180.04 GB)
Raid Devices : 14
Total Devices : 14
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sun Nov 28 21:15:32 2004 State : clean, degraded, recovering Active Devices : 13 Working Devices : 14 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 1
Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 256K
Rebuild Status : 0% complete
UUID : 70c4df2b:2dc20e84:e555fa94:a57be873 Events : 0.4
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 17 0 active sync /dev/sdb1 1 8 33 1 active sync /dev/sdc1 2 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 65 3 active sync /dev/sde1 4 8 81 4 active sync /dev/sdf1 5 8 97 5 active sync /dev/sdg1 6 8 113 6 active sync /dev/sdh1 7 8 129 7 active sync /dev/sdi1 8 8 145 8 active sync /dev/sdj1 9 8 161 9 active sync /dev/sdk1 10 8 177 10 active sync /dev/sdl1 11 8 193 11 active sync /dev/sdm1 12 8 209 12 active sync /dev/sdn1 13 0 0 - removed
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