[Bugs] #1798 NORM: Overlay corruption

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#1798: Overlay corruption
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    Reporter:  David Kergyl  |          Owner:  sdz                        
        Type:  defect        |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Normal        |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS          |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Critical      |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Fedora        |   Status_field:  New                        
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Comment(by FGrose):

 Replying to [comment:21 David Kergyl]:

 School-based deployments may want to take advantage of the persistent
 /home/ directory installation instead of the persistent OS overlay.  The
 persistent home folder is not a write-once, ever-diminishing storage
 space.

 For consistency and stability reasons, the school may want to leave out
 the persistent OS overlay (using a temporary overlay on each boot) and
 just use the persistent /home/ directories to save the Learners' Journals
 and settings.

 If a school-wide system change were desired, the Sticks could be upgraded
 with a simple exchange of the /LiveOS/squashfs.img file in the base file
 system of each device or stick, perhaps, even triggered by the School
 Server.

 Installation of a persistent /home/ directory is available at the present
 time by means of the livecd-iso-to-disk shell script (which is available
 within a booted Mirabelle image at /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk).

 There are other features that are available in
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone, and storage
 space optimization is discussed on this page,
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image.

 The Sugar Clone enhancements have been submitted for inclusion in the
 standard livecd-iso-to-disk script, see http://www.mail-
 archive.com/soas at lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01608.html.

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