Folks,

There are various projects implementing LiveCD, rescue, or snapshotted updates. I would like to propose a feature in which some of the rescue/LiveCD bits are (optionally) installed to a spare volume during install such that there's always a rescue/Live boot option that can boot up to a recovery desktop without needing to grab media, etc.

Modern disks are large and cheap (even some SSDs). I can't see a downside and it helps with all manner of botched updates. Snapshots help aswell, but there are many times where you just want something more than a single user boot to fix some breakage.

Jon.