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

2011-02-14 Thread Keith Beeby
Hi, So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, is this the correct thing to do? sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192 Keith On 14 Feb 2011, at 10:36, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: em and force a check with fsck

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

2011-02-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, no, to the *guest* OS instances. [please, do not top-post]. is this the correct thing to do? sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192 No space(s) I believe. sysctl -w

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

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, no, to the *guest* OS instances.  [please, do not top-post]. is this the correct thing to do? sysctl

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

2011-02-14 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/14/2011 07:31 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, no, to the *guest* OS instances. [please, do not top-post].

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

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
It's certainly possible that the error I was receiving was a different reason, though similar symptoms. We started seeing filesystems go read-only, and only rebooting would clear it up. I use that setting on the Host OS for VMWare to prevent a whole vm from getting killed. That setting

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

2011-02-14 Thread Bazooka Joe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:28 +, 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

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

2011-02-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:01 -0800, Bazooka Joe wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:28 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Also seeing this issue with CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 with NFS shared storage, according the the VMware

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

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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

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

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@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

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

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@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

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

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Beeby
Hi 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 value apply CentOS v.5.4 and 5.5 as well to resolve the issue? On 13 Feb 2011, at

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

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 09:40 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@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

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

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:28 +, 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