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Bug#558274: ITP: dracut -- A new initramfs infrastructure



* Philippe Seewer <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch> [Fre Nov 27, 2009 at 03:55:10 +0100]:

> * Package name    : dracut
>   Version         : 3.0
>   Upstream Author : Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
> * URL             : https://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/
> * License         : GPLv2
>   Programming Lang: Shell
>   Description     : A new initramfs infrastructure

>  Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as
>  possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible.  The initramfs has
>  (basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that
>  we can transition to the real rootfs.  This is all driven off of
>  device availability.  Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do
>  various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and
>  then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on. 
>  Having the root on MD, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI,
>  NBD and FCOE.

What's the current state of dracut packaging?
Any chances we might see dracut included right in time for Squeeze?

regards,
-mika-

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