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-dracut
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-dracut is a new initramfs infrastructure.
-
-Information about the initial goals and aims can be found at
-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Initrdrewrite
-
-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.
-This helps to keep the time required in the initramfs as little as
-possible so that things like a 5 second boot aren't made impossible as
-a result of the very existence of an initramfs. It's likely that
-we'll grow some hooks for running arbitrary commands in the flow of
-the script, but it's worth trying to resist the urge as much as we can
-as hooks are guaranteed to be the path to slow-down.
-
-Most of the initramfs generation functionality in dracut is provided by a bunch
-of generator modules that are sourced by the main dracut script to install
-specific functionality into the initramfs. They live in the modules.d
-subdirectory, and use functionality provided by dracut-functions to do their
-work.
-
-Some general rules for writing modules:
- * Use one of the inst family of functions to actually install files
- on to the initramfs. They handle mangling the pathnames and (for binaries,
- scripts, and kernel modules) installing dependencies as appropriate so
- you do not have to.
- * Scripts that end up on the initramfs should be POSIX compliant. dracut
- will try to use /bin/dash as /bin/sh for the initramfs if it is available,
- so you should install it on your system -- dash aims for strict POSIX
- compliance to the extent possible.
- * Hooks MUST be POSIX compliant -- they are sourced by the init script,
- and having a bashism break your user's ability to boot really sucks.
- * Generator modules should have a two digit numeric prefix -- they run in
- ascending sort order. Anything in the 90-99 range is stuff that dracut
- relies on, so try not to break those hooks.
- * Hooks must have a .sh extension.
- * Generator modules are described in more detail in README.modules.
- * We have some breakpoints for debugging your hooks. If you pass 'rdbreak'
- as a kernel parameter, the initramfs will drop to a shell just before
- switching to a new root. You can pass 'rdbreak=hookpoint', and the initramfs
- will break just before hooks in that hookpoint run.
-
-Also, there is an attempt to keep things as distribution-agnostic as
-possible. Every distribution has their own tool here and it's not
-something which is really interesting to have separate across them.
-So contributions to help decrease the distro-dependencies are welcome.
-
-Currently dracut lives on kernel.org.
-
-The tarballs can be found here:
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/
- ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/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@github.com:dracutdevs/dracut.git
-
- git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut/dracut
-
-Git Web:
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git
-
- https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut.git
-
- http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut
-
-Git Web RSS Feed:
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=rss
-
-Project Page:
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
-
-Project Wiki:
- http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org
-
-See the TODO file for things which still need to be done and HACKING for
-some instructions on how to get started. There is also a mailing list
-that is being used for the discussion -- initramfs@vger.kernel.org.
-It is a typical vger list, send mail to majordomo@vger.kernel.org with body
-of 'subscribe initramfs email@host.com'
-
-
-Licensed under the GPLv2
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