Persistent overlay?

[Jason Farrell]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>


A small list:
1) Saved State
2) State Layer
3) Writable Layer
4) Read-Write Overlay
5) Read-Write Area
6) Changeable Image

"User data and system changes are saved to the _BLANK_."

Calling it a "Writable Layer" might make slightly more common sense.
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