Fedora 17 Update: dracut-016-1.fc17

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Tue Feb 21 02:23:58 UTC 2012


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-1766
2012-02-16 01:53:55
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 016
Release     : 1.fc17
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:

- "offroot" support for MD raid
- new parameter "--omit-drivers" and new conf param omit_drivers
- reload udev rules after "pre-trigger" hook

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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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