dracut-20-51 - Heads up

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:54:12 -0400,
   Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Added an automatic test in the dracut testsuite, so that this never happens
>> again.. Sorry for the inconvenience. Yes, rawhide sometimes eats babies.
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>
>Thanks for the heads up... but in my case too late :)  One of the
>effects is that chunks of my / went missing, notably /etc and some
>other directories that I wouldn't think could be related to this.  So
>I ended up doing a reinstall.  Perhaps the corruption is more of a
>result of ext4 not handling the multiple unclean shutdowns while
>trying to debug.

That happened to me on one of my two rawhide instances. I think I shot 
myself in the foot while trying to fix things by mounting root read/write 
when I shouldn't have.