Fedora 18 Update: dracut-024-25.git20130205.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2064
2013-02-08 01:08:33
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 024
Release     : 25.git20130205.fc18
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:

- changed mdmon-offroot at .service to mdmon at .service
- deconstruct loop devices also on shutdown

To test, you will have to have root on an IMSM raid array and you will have to run:

# dracut -f
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb  5 2013 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 024-25.git20130205
- call "losetup -D" on shutdown
- use new mdadm at .service instead of mdadm-offroot at .service
* Mon Jan 21 2013 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 024-23.git20130118
- fix disassembling of IMSM raids
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #879327 - System with Intel firmware RAID-1 does not power off or reboot
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879327
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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