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Added note about Fedora kernel updates and compatibility

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Co-authored-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
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@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ released. Packages are available for the following configurations:
| **Fedora Releases:** 30, 31, 32
| **Architectures:** x86_64
.. note::
Due to the release cycle of OpenZFS and Fedora adoption
of new kernels in current distribution release, it may happen that you
won't be able to build DKMS package on the most recent kernel update.
For example, Fedora 32 was released with kernel 5.6 but it is expected
that it will update to 5.7. OpenZFS was released with support for kernel
5.6 but not for 5.7 and there will be no update right after 5.7 will hit
Fedora repository so you have to take into account that you will have to
pin your kernel version at some point.
To simplify installation a zfs-release package is provided which
includes a zfs.repo configuration file and the ZFS on Linux public
signing key. All official ZFS on Linux packages are signed using this