Fedora 17 Update: dracut-016-9.git20120217.fc17
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Tue Feb 28 10:45:01 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2051
2012-02-20 17:09:17
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Name : dracut
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 016
Release : 9.git20120217.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:
- unpack initramfs for root disassembly not only on reboot, but also on shutdown
- fixed "root=iscsi:..."
- support for LiveOS image on nfs, http, https and ftp.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #781983 - Extend functionality to support LiveOS via nfs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781983
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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