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Archive for December, 2009
Kernel 2.6.32.1-deadlock released for Debian/Ubuntu (Deadlock)
5Yesterday, the kernel development team have released kernel version 2.6.32.1. As I was looking at the ChangeLog from kernel.org website, I have noticed that there are not much changes to this kernel, besides tons of fixed for ext4 file system. It seems the previous kernel, 2.6.32, had some regression when it came to ext4 file system. I’m not really sure how much of the issues were solved regarding the ext4 file system, but I hope it did improve, as there was some performance losses because of this.
Kernel 2.6.32-final for Debian/Ubuntu is here!
6Today, the kernel development team has release the stable version of the kernel 2.6.32. This version should include a lot of bug fixes, improvements and added functionality and drivers. Like usual, when there is a kernel release, I also do a kernel package release, which in this case is called “final“, as its a major and stable release of a new kernel tree, 2 6.32. I’m not gonna talk too much about the this kernel release, but I will talk about the package which includes this kernel. To find what actually has changed in this kernel version, I would recommend all of you to read the change log from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.
Preview kernel 2.6.31.6 with ureadahead patch (2.6.31.6-bullet) for Ubuntu/Debian.
1This is not a full release of the normal kernel packages or this not a new kernel version. Its the same 2.6.31.6 kernel, but with über-readahead (ureadahead) patch. Also is a preview because to be honest I’m not 100% sure that is gonna work fine.
I haven’t fully tested this kernel with the new patch, so I can’t really say how good or bad it is, but all of you, who use Ubuntu 9.10 should try to move to this kernel as yesterday the guys from Ubuntu added to the main repositories ureadahead, the replacement of sreadahead. So to be able to use it, you will need this kernel.
Please download it and install it and use it, so I can be 100% sure it works fine on other desktops/laptops/netbooks.
To download the package please go to: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.31.6-bullet/.
Update: In case ureadahead was installed, but never ran, you will need to create the pack file /var/lib/ureadahead/pack manually. For this you will need to run this command: sudo ureadahead -v (to see whats going on).
