Bug#453120: mptscsi: Massive workload causes FS to be remounted readonly in VMware guest

[Sebastian Dröge <slomo@uni-paderborn.de>]

Package: linux-2.6
Severity: important

Hi,
when running a Debian system as VMware guest system one could get SCSI
timeouts when there is massive workload on the host system. Since some
kernel version these will get the filesystems remounted read-only, which
probably makes sense for real hardware, but doesn't make sense for
emulated hardware. Instead it should just wait a bit longer.

See
http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/31-VMware-ESX-and-ext3-journal-aborts.html

for some details and what needs to be changed in the kernel. Redhat and
SuSE seem to have this change in their kernels already it seems and
without that change it's impossible to run Debian as VMWare guest
reliable.

Bye