Bug#453120: mptscsi: Massive workload causes FS to be remounted readonly in VMware guest
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Sebastian Dr??ge wrote:
> 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.
hey Sebastian,
Your report is missing important version information. Please see:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs
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dann frazier
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