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Dracut
Summary
Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd.
Owner
- Name: Harald Hoyer
- email: harald@redhat.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 12
- Last updated: 2009-08-19
- Percentage of completion: 100%
Working:
- normal disk with md/dm raid, LVM, crypto
- NFS
- iSCSI
- NBD
- FCoE
TODO:
- IPv6 (postponed to post F12)
- multipath (postponed to post F12)
Detailed Description
Dracut is a generic, modular initramfs generation tool that can be used across various distributions.
See also: Dracut
Benefit to Fedora
Replace nash/mkinitrd with a tool, that is maintained by a cross distribution community.
Scope
All functionality of nash/mkinitrd has to be implemented and tested in dracut.
How To Test
- See also: Dracut
- See also: Dracut/Testing
User Experience
Switching root partitions should be more flexible.
Dependencies
none
Contingency Plan
Fallback to mkinitrd.
Documentation
- Sourceforge Project http://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/
- git git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut
- Trac Instance: http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/
- Mailing List: initramfs@vger.kernel.org
LWN article: http://lwn.net/Articles/317793/
Release Notes
- mkinitrd/nash has been replaced by dracut, which uses standard tools and scripts to boot from the root partition.
