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

Sun Feb 13 14:29:51 UTC 2011
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

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.
>
> I've found -
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228108>
> <http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=51306>
> - which seem related but I believe I am running a kernel that contains
> these fixes.
>
I ran into a similar problem, but it was not specifically iSCSI.  We
ended up setting a sysctl.conf file.  Give me a few and I will find
the setting..