Persistent overlay?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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.

Any other suggestions please?

Rahul