March 22nd, 2010
Kernel Updates
We have added support for a new 2.6.32.9 kernel that is now available in the SliceManager. We highly recommend that you upgrade your slice to this version as it does include around 90 total fixes, many of which are security related. All of the updates are included in this rather lengthy changelog.
Additionally, we introduced a new Red Hat kernel, 2.6.18-164.15.1, last Thursday, that is now set as the default for all new RHEL 5.3 and 5.4 slices. The security updates included in this kernel can be found here.
If you are running an older kernel and would like to upgrade your slice to the latest version available, you can do so by following the steps described in this previous blog post.
If you experience any issues regarding these new kernels, we are available in SliceChat to assist you 24 hours a day.
March 24th, 2010 at 06:08 PM Chris Box
Good to see that the new kernel enables /proc/config.gz, so we can easily find out what options are supported.
But there’s no CONFIG_EXT4_FS! Could you not enable the ext4 driver so that we can take advantage of its performance, even on existing ext3 filesystems?
March 26th, 2010 at 09:36 PM PickledOnion
Hi Chris,
Let me speak with the Systems Team and see what we can get sorted for you.
Cheers, Paul