On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 13:22 +0300, John Babich wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)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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