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

Mon Feb 14 21:01:10 UTC 2011
Bazooka Joe <fastfish at gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:28 +0000, Keith Beeby wrote:
>> Also seeing this issue with CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 with NFS shared
>> storage, according the the VMware knowledge base article this should
>> have been resolved in v5.1 update??.
>> Does changing the vm.min_free_kbytes valu  apply CentOS v.5.4 and 5.5
>> as well to resolve the issue?
>
> I guess we'll see [this issue has become extremely frustrating].
>
> I suppose it is 'good' to see that someone else sees the issue as well.
> One issue with virtualization is that debugging these types of issues is
> an order-of-magnitude more difficult [virtualized OS, virtualized
> storage, virtualization platform, or some interaction of all the
> above... ugh].
>


I am experiencing the same issue.

cent: current
exsi v3.5 update 5
storage nfs

I am in the process of rebuilding the virtual server using a different
os thinking it was just file system errors.

-bazooka