/**
* Set this RDD's storage level to persist its values across operations after the first time
* it is computed. This can only be used to assign a new storage level if the RDD does not
* have a storage level set yet. Local checkpointing is an exception.
*/
def persist(newLevel: StorageLevel): this.type = {
if (isLocallyCheckpointed) {
// This means the user previously called localCheckpoint(), which should have already
// marked this RDD for persisting. Here we should override the old storage level with
// one that is explicitly requested by the user (after adapting it to use disk).
persist(LocalRDDCheckpointData.transformStorageLevel(newLevel), allowOverride = true)
} else {