Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 00:32:58 +0200
From: Erik van Konijnenburg <ekonijn@xs4all.nl>
To: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.6, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts
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Version 0.0.6 of yaird is now available at:
	http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird-0.0.6.tar.gz

Yaird is a proof of concept perl rewrite of mkinitrd.  It aims to
reliably identify the necessary modules by using the same algorithms
as hotplug, and comes with a template system to to tune the tool for
different distributions and experiment with different image layouts.
It requires a 2.6 kernel with hotplug.  There is a paper discussing it at:

	http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html

Summary of user visible changes for version 0.0.6
     * Support cryptsetup.  See the README file, see HTML documentation.
     * Support aliases and options in modprobe.conf,
       simply by using modprobe rather than doing a reimplementation in perl.
     * tested with ulibc
     * Bugfixes:
       - failure to generate image on systems without LVM
       - overcrowded /dev under Debian with udev
       - failure to generate image if multiple links to same raid device exist
       - uninitialised value in verbose output

On top of the todo list are now:
     * support NFS devices
     * support cryptsetup-luks
     * support loopback devices

Regards,
Erik
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