Second try: Clarification of statement about stateless sytem]

[john wendel]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I tried once and got no response so I am trying again. It is strange
> that people understand all such obscure things but can't explain one of
> the many gobbledygook statements made in the release notes.
> 
> In section 2.2.6 of the F10 release notes is the following statement:
> 
> Support for keeping a persistent /home with the rest of the system
> stateless has been added for Fedora 10.
> 
> I don't understand that statement? Could someone explain it, especially
> the meaning of the words persistent and stateless in that context.
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> 

My (possibly confused) understanding,

Stateless: After installation, the system will run without modifying any 
  files. It could be installed on a CD-ROM or other read only storage.

Persistent /home: /home can be installed on writable storage (in 
combination with a read-only /).

All this is for a live-cd that has a writable /home.

Regards,

John