Release criterion proposal: live image persistence

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:17 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 17:14:05 -0700,
>    Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >Thoughts? We could theoretically require only the whole-system overlay
> >to work, not the separate /home overlay, but the separate /home overlay
> >possibility exists for a good reason - the whole-system overlay is very
> >easy to exhaust, so if you're going to try and use a persistent stick
> >for long-term use, it's much better to also/only have a separate /home
> >overlay, which is implemented in a way that's much less prone to space
> >exhaustion. Thanks!
> 
> You can also rebuild the OS and OS overlay without overwriting the home 
> file system, which allows you to update without wasting space or if you 
> want you kernel updated.
> 
> I think Brian was going to try to have livemedia-creator as the primary 
> live system for F18. It might be good to hear from him before commiting 
> to something.

That's for building the live ISO, not for writing it to USB (it replaces
livecd-creator, not livecd-iso-to-disk). I don't think it affects the
ability of litd to write persistent storage to the USB stick when
creating it, though IMBW.
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