On Monday September 4, gfk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but a > Google search didn't turned out anything relevant, so I'm taking a > chance here. > > I have my root on software raid on Debian and every night, cron is > sending me this error: > ----- > Subject: Cron <root@ali> [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] && > /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet > > checkarray: E: no kernel support for parity checks. > ----- > > Looking at the code, it looks like this is where the error is reported: > if [ -z "$(ls /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action 2>/dev/null)" ]; then > [ $quiet -lt 2 ] && echo "$PROGNAME: E: no kernel support for parity > checks." >&2 > exit 3 > fi > > My /sys directory is empty: > gfk@ali:~$ ls -ld /sys > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 2005 /sys > gfk@ali:~$ ls -l /sys > total 0 > > Is it normal that /sys is empty? I can't find how to populate it, if > someone could give me a clue... :-) mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html