[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- 'persistance' is on LiveCD wishlist - what does it mean?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> The first feature requests that when booting some media that you can't
> commit changes to, changes in tmpfs should be saved to a USB stick or
> something similar that holds a filesystem that we /can/ commit to, so
> that when you boot it again, you can roll-forward the changes from the
> 'tmpfs' on that medium and continue like it's a normal system. Does it
> make sense?

This is really the important one, see my other response for more
details.

> The second just wants USB media like the LiveCD but with a real RW
> filesystem.

I think that for this, you should just install to the USB stick.  That
should work these days and if it doesn't, then we should just fix it
rather than papering over by allowing something like this.

Jeremy