Fedora 16 Update: dracut-013-19.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16098
2011-11-19 05:16:14
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 013
Release     : 19.fc16
URL         : https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/
Summary     : Initramfs generator using udev
Description :
Dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels.
Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible
into the initramfs. Dracut contains various modules which are driven by the
event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as
NFS, iSCSI, NBD, FCoE with the dracut-network package.

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Update Information:

fixed mdraid handling
fixed cdrom polling
support install_items in dracut.conf
include usb storage drivers

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 17 2011 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 013-19
- fixed mdraid handling
Resolves: rhbz#751667
- fix cdrom polling
- support opening crypto devs with file
  support install_items in dracut.conf
Resolves: rhbz#751640
- include usb storage drivers
Resolves: rhbz#716799
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #751667 - dracut attempts to assemble mdraid before all drives are initialized
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751667
  [ 2 ] Bug #751640 - dracut ignores crypttab keyfile
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751640
  [ 3 ] Bug #716799 - Fedora 15 install cd failed to boot: no root device
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716799
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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