Yesterday, 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.

The packages build now, also included the same goodies like the previous kernel packages, but with some updates. First of all, like in all of the kernel builds, acerhdf module was updated to version 0.5.22 (Acer Aspire One Fan control module), coretemp fixed to support also Intel Atom processors, added unionfs support, btrfs support (kind of an experimental version), ureadahead patch, and of course a very custom kernel configuration.

The kernel was build totally different than the other versions build by me and it suppose to be more stable, faster and responsive. I have test the new build on my laptops and it does seem to have a performance upgrade, if I can call it like that.

The installation instruction I wont write like always, but I will tell you from where you can get the packages or kernel source code in case you wanna build this kernel yourself. To download the deb packages, please go to http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.32.1-deadlock/ (US/CA mirror) or http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.32.1-deadlock/ (CZ/EU mirror) and for the kernel source code and kernel configuration go to http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/source/ (US/CA mirror) or http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/source/ (CZ/EU mirror)