To Use or not to use EWF for CF

[AS]

I got confused on the use of EWF for compact flash.. Here's my setting, a
small miniPC with CPU, RAM and CF.. No harddisk or CD etc.. I also would
need the config. changes made by the user to be stored after successive
reboots... Question is, should I be using EWF or should I configure my CF
just like that w/o EWF ...?? EWF description mentions overlaying concept,
that will protect the CF from unintentional writes etc, but in my case, I
want to boot off from the CF and keep runing some application... Any ideas
??

Thanks,
Regards,

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

You should look at many old posts in this news group.

But basically you can use RAM EWF (stateless), and store your config info on
second unprotected partition.
Or if you can't use this approach, then you can use disk overlay.

Have you considered amount of settings user can make? If it is small then
you can make workarounds for them. (There should not be any settings that
need to be written to registry.)

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Heidi Linda eMVP]

I have a large protected partition with Windows and the apps and so on, and,
because committing messes up one of the applications, a small unprotected
partition on which application .ini files and configuration information (in
a batch file launched every boot) are kept. Works very well. Changes to the
unprotected partition are only made when settings change, which isn't very
often.