I've been having trouble with VMWare 5 and SL4...  I've submitted a 
big-report the VMWare folks -- but they can't/won't replicate it.

The problem is that after I use VMWare for a while, it will cause the 
device holding /home (/dev/mapper/VolWhatever) to become read-only.  
Remounting doesn't help -- I have to reboot before I can write to /home 
again.  I've rebuilt the machine from scratch and I see the same behavior.

I'm running a pair of mirrored HDDs, with LVM running in /dev/md2, and 
then ext3 filesystems on top of LVM.  (The /dev/md1 device is used is 
/boot.)

Has anyone seen anything similar?  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-Luke

P.S. It doesn't seem to happen on my work-computer, which is running SL4 
on non-mirrored drives.  The /home volume is delivered by an NFS 
automunt on that computer, though.

-- 
Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator
Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering