On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 17:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram 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(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.
Any other suggestions please?
I'm not sure whether changing this midstream is a great idea. After
all, the "persistence" and "persistent overlay" were terms I
described
repeatedly and consistently with every one of the dozen or more
interviews I gave for Fedora 9. If we change this we risk making things
*more* confusing for users who are pursuing the links from the highly
digg'd stories such as from
lifehacker.org. From a strategy
perspective, one generally doesn't want to send a bunch of media
messages, and then change the terminology afterward.
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