Hi all, I've tagged mkinitcpio 0.8.0, which came a little earlier than I would have liked, but there's still fun things to talk about. The major point of interest is the addition of fsck functionality. The logic in init is triggered by the addition of the 'fsck' install hook. If added after the autodetect hook, only the necessarily helper for the root FS will be added. Eventually, there may be reason to add fsck prior to this hook, but probably not yet. Operation is hands off until something blows up, at which point we follow similar logic to that of rc.sysinit. I'll explicitly call out that if you're using this hook, make sure you have a useful keyboard -- this probably means adding the usbinput hook. Other than fsck, there's were lot of cleanup efforts in the early userspace init to modularize the functionality, but it generally remains the same. Everything remains largely the same functionally, but I'll point out that if you pass a major/minor pair as your root device or don't use udev, you will likely no longer see root mounted as /dev/root, but as a more descriptive block device. As always, this has stood up to my army of VMs, but nothing's better for finding bugs than real world testing. Thanks for Gerardo and Tom for their contributions to this release. The full shortlog is below. Dave Reisner (15): mkinitcpio: dereference symlinks when resolving kernver update bash completion Makefile: install binaries to /usr/bin init: don't tell the kernel about the path to modprobe init: create /run/initramfs after mounting /run init_functions: refactor poll_device autodetect: store rootfstype for use by other hooks init: use util-linux's /bin/mount init_functions: move root resolution to separate function init_functions: generalize resolve_device init_functions: resolve M:m to device file fsck: implement basic fsck support install/fsck: new install hook to add fsck and helpers init_functions: simplify parse_cmdline use util-linux's switch_root binary Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (5): hooks/resume: Remove unused function hooks/resume: Remove grep usage init: Remove grep usage init: Remove sed cmd usage init: Remove unneeded test Tom Gundersen (1): add_symlink: fix argument ordering and add_dir call