Fedora 16 Update: dracut-013-22.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5109
2012-03-31 02:18:26
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 013
Release     : 22.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:

- add support for mdraid --offroot
- add support for the /usr-move with the convertfs module
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 26 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 013-22
- added convertfs dracut module
- added mdraid --offroot support
* Mon Jan 23 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 013-21
- include /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.order
* Tue Dec 13 2011 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 013-20
- do not wait for raid to be synced
Resolves: rhbz#757361
* 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 #806822 - dracut-017-59.git20120321.fc17 breaks f16->f17 upgrades through yum
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806822
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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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