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Dell PowerEdge Systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Release Notes

/proc/mdstat and mdadm -D commands display incorrect statuses when two NVMe devices are surprise removed from a RAID 5 MD array

Description
When two of three NVMe devices are surprise removed from a RAID 5 MD array, the command cat/ proc/mdstat displays the array status incorrectly as active. Similarly, when the status of the MD RAID is queried using the mdadm -D /dev/mdN command, the number of active and working devices that are displayed is two. Only the status of the array reported is incorrect. However, when I/O operations are performed, I/O errors are observed as expected.
Cause
When the number of devices that are surprise removed exceeds the number of devices that are required for the array to function, the MD status is not updated.
Systems affected
All Dell EMC PowerEdge systems supporting NVMe Surprise Removal.
Applies to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 and later
Tracking number
182820

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