Xen paravirtuals sporadically remount ext3 filesystems as ro

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

xen guest errors
Apr  1 08:38:47 hosea2 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-2) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
/proc/mounts will show device as ro
/dev/vg00/lv03 /u01 ext3 ro 0 0

Environment

Has occurred on 5 xen para-virtuals recently, one RHEL5, the others RHEL4

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