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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Right. Mind that it's not me who created the wish-list, I think it was
David in the early days after FUDCon in Boston.

The second (USB sticks) seems far more important to me then the
stateless-but-persistent one.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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