CentOS5: Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 causes panic

The kernel 2.6.18-164 causes serious ext3 filesystem problems (ext3_free_blocks_sb). We lost data in the / partition.
Downgrading to -128.7.1 helped working that serious problem around.

To prevent this kernel to be installed, add the following lines to /etc/yum.conf:

# We know this kernel causes a crash

exclude=kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5

Afterwards, you can perform a "yum update" as usual.

More info:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3846

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927

http://forum.r1soft.com/showthread.php?t=1158