md Raid10 incorrectly asks for at least four devices

Bug #1880023 reported by Thimo E
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Bug Description

The issue seems to be this line:
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity/blob/master/subiquity/models/filesystem.py#L157

Actually the minimum number of devices for md raid level 10 is 2.
This has some importance since raid10 - compared to raid1 - features roughly double read speed as long as only one thread is reading from disk.

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

Yes, seems you are right. I hate the raid documentation :)

Changed in subiquity:
status: New → Triaged
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Thimo E (thimo-e) wrote :

Actually, it seems the best description of RAID10 is on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10

I can confirm this is my understanding of the linux-raid mailinglist.

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