I am trying to create an IMSM container and volume in a KVM virtual
machine (so that I can create a reproducer for a Fedora problem that
seems to only/mostly affect IMSM RAID). I've managed to create a
container with the following command:
IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1 mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md/imsm \
/dev/vd{a,b} --raid-devices 2 --metadata=imsm
/proc/mdstat now contains:
Personalities: [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] ...
md127 : inactive vdb[1](S) vda[0](S)
2210 blocks super external:imsm
I haven't, however, been able to create a volume within the container:
# IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1 mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md/vol0 \
/dev/md/imsm --raid-devices 2 --level 1 --metadata=imsm
mdmon: not enough devices with space to create array.
# IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1 mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md/vol0 \
/dev/vd{a,b} --raid-devices 2 --level 1 --metadata=imsm
mdadm: /dev/vda appears to be part of a raid array:
level=container devices=0 ctime=Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
mdmon: /dev/vdb is not in the same imsm set
mdadm: /dev/vdb is not suitable for this array.
mdadm: create aborted
Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply not possible?
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