[BozemanLUG] Live USB with persistence ?

[David Boreham]

On 1/21/2013 9:32 PM, David Eder wrote:
> My approach to USB bootable Linux is really simple:  Use Virtualbox
> pointed to the thumb drive as a hard drive and just do a normal install.
> No fancy overlays (you get space back when you delete stuff.)  Updating
> via yum works.  No problems generally.  We've used this for F14, F17, and
> CentOS 6.
Interesting. How's performance in that mode ? The un-squishing into 
memory with write overlay technique was developed to deal with the low 
write performance of flash devices. I suppose present-day thumb drives 
are as fast as yesterday's SSD though.