Fedora 16 Update: dracut-018-55.git20120606.fc16
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Tue Jul 3 15:48:26 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9063
2012-06-07 22:11:04
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Name : dracut
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 018
Release : 55.git20120606.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:
- update to F17 version
- support for /usr mounting in the initramfs
- better hostonly support
- faster image creation
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 6 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 018-55.git20120606
- update to F17 version
- support for /usr mounting in the initramfs
- better hostonly support
- faster image creation
* 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 #827019 - dracut has problems with the use of fstab.sys entries
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827019
[ 2 ] Bug #799729 - RFE: mount /usr from initramfs in F16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799729
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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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