Persistent overlay?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 13:22 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I suggested to Luke to use something better than "persistent overlay" to
> > describe the amount of space alloted for storing software changes and
> > settings in a Live USB.
> >
> How about "permanent storage"?

Tough call -- because the space is used for differences in the whole
file system, not just data storage.  So a 512 MB overlay doesn't mean
the user can store 512 MB of data, especially if they start changing the
package complement.

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