[CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

Mon Feb 14 00:00:57 UTC 2011
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>

On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 09:40 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: 
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment
> > using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts
> > resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem
> > issues - I can unmount a filesystem and force a check with "fsck -f" and
> > occasionally find errors.
> http://communities.vmware.com/message/245983
> The setting we used to resolve was vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192
> Previous to this we were seeing the error pop up every week or so.

You made this change to the *virtual machine* [not the host OS]?   

This thread indicates this was with VMware Workstation and not ESX
(correct)?