Long time, no release...
Here comes a new dracut version. Thanks to all who have contributed to this
release.
The tarball can be found here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/releases/
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Git:
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https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git
Git Web:
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git
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Project Page:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
Project Wiki:
http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org
The ChangeLog can be found here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS
dracut-045
==========
Important: dracut now requires libkmod for the dracut-install binary helper,
which nows handles kernel module installing and filtering.
dracut.sh:
- restorecon final image file
- fail hard, if we find modules and modules.dep is missing
- support --tmpdir as a relative path
- add default path for --uefi
dracut-functions.sh:
- fix check_vol_slaves() volume group name stripping
dracut-install:
- catch ldd message "cannot execute binary file"
- added kernel module handling with libkmod
Added parameters:
--module,-m
--mod-filter-path, -p
--mod-filter-nopath, -P
--mod-filter-symbol, -s
--mod-filter-nosymbol, -S
--mod-filter-noname, -N
--silent
--kerneldir
--firmwaredirs
- fallback to non-hostonly mode if lsmod fails
lsinitrd:
- new option "--unpack"
- new option "--unpackearly"
- and "--verbose"
general initramfs fixes:
- don't remove 99-cmdline-ask on 'hostonly' cleanup
- call dracut-cmdline-ask.service, if /etc/cmdline.d/*.conf exists
- break at switch_root only for bare rd.break
- add rd.emergency=[reboot|poweroff|halt]
specifies what action to execute in case of a critical failure
- rd.memdebug=4 gives information, about kernel module memory consumption
during loading
dmsquash-live:
- fixed livenet-generator execution flag
and include only, if systemd is used
- fixed dmsquash-live-root.sh for cases where the fstype of the liveimage is squashfs
- fixed typo for rootfs.img
- enable the use of the OverlayFS for the LiveOS root filesystem
Patch notes:
Integrate the option to use an OverlayFS as the root filesystem
into the 90dmsquash-live module for testing purposes.
The rd.live.overlay.overlayfs option allows one to request an
OverlayFS overlay. If a persistent overlay is detected at the
standard LiveOS path, the overlay & type detected will be used.
Tested primarily with transient, in-RAM overlay boots on vfat-
formatted Live USB devices, with persistent overlay directories
on ext4-formatted Live USB devices, and with embedded, persistent
overlay directories on vfat-formatted devices. (Persistent overlay
directories on a vfat-formatted device must be in an embedded
filesystem that supports the creation of trusted.* extended
attributes, and must provide valid d_type in readdir responses.)
The rd.live.overlay.readonly option, which allows a persistent
overlayfs to be mounted read only through a higher level transient
overlay directory, has been implemented through the multiple lower
layers feature of OverlayFS.
The default transient DM overlay size has been adjusted up to 32 GiB.
This change supports comparison of transient Device-mapper vs.
transient OverlayFS overlay performance. A transient DM overlay
is a sparse file in memory, so this setting does not consume more
RAM for legacy applications. It does permit a user to use all of
the available root filesystem storage, and fails gently when it is
consumed, as the available free root filesystem storage on a typical
LiveOS build is only a few GiB. Thus, when booted on other-
than-small RAM systems, the transient DM overlay should not overflow.
OverlayFS offers the potential to use all of the available free RAM
or all of the available free disc storage (on non-vfat-devices)
in its overlay, even beyond the root filesystem available space,
because the OverlayFS root filesystem is a union of directories on
two different partitions.
This patch also cleans up some message spew at shutdown, shortens
the execution path in a couple of places, and uses persistent
DM targets where required.
dmraid:
- added "nowatch" option in udev rule, otherwise udev would reread partitions for raid members
- allow booting from degraded MD RAID arrays
shutdown:
- handle readonly /run on shutdown
kernel-modules:
- add all HID drivers, regardless of hostonly mode
people swap keyboards sometimes and should be able to enter their disk password
- add usb-storage
To save the rdsosreport.txt to a USB stick, the usb-storage module is needed.
- add xennet
- add nvme
systemd:
- add /etc/machine-info
- fixed systemd-escape call for names beginning with "-"
- install missing drop-in configuration files for
/etc/systemd/{journal.conf,system.conf}
filesystems:
- add support to F2FS filesystem (fsck and modules)
network:
- fix carrier detection
- correctly set mac address for ip=...:<mtu>:<mac>
- fixed vlan, bonding, bridging, team logic
call ifup for the slaves and assemble afterwards
- add mtu to list of variables to store in override
- for rd.neednet=0 a bootdev is not needed anymore
- dhclient-script.sh: add classless-static-routes support
- support for iBFT IPv6
- support macaddr in brackets [] (commit 740c46c0224a187d6b5a42b4aa56e173238884cc)
- use arping2, if available
- support multiple default gateways from DHCP server
- fixup VLAN handling
- enhance team support
- differ between ipv6 local and global tentative
- ipv6: wait for a router advertised route
- add 'mtu' parameter for bond options
- use 'ip' instead of 'brctl'
nbd:
- add systemd generator
- use export names instead of port numbers, because port number based
exports are deprecated and were removed.
fcoe:
- no more /dev/shm state copying
multipath:
- check all /dev/mapper devices if they are multipath devices, not only mpath*
fips:
- fixed .hmac installation in FIPS mode
plymouth:
- also trigger the acpi subsystem
syslog:
- add imjournal.so to read systemd journal
- move start from udev to initqueue/online
caps:
- make it a non default module
livenet:
- support nfs:// urls in livenet-generator
nfs:
- install all nfs modules non-hostonly
crypt:
- support keyfiles embedded in the initramfs
testsuite:
- add TEST-70-BONDBRIDGETEAMVLAN
- make "-cpu host" the default
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