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Revision as of 14:03, 3 April 2009
Feature Name
Dracut
Summary
Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd.
Owner
- Name: Harald Hoyer
- email: harald@redhat.com
Current status
- Targeted release: 12
- Last updated: 2009-04-03
- Percentage of completion: 40%
Detailed Description
Dracut is a generic, modular initramfs generation tool that can be used across various distributions.
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
Use the created initrd on any machine to boot from any root partitions.
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