Thanks for the suggestions. I'll experiment with the read only root image and see if it can be bend to my will. The reason I don't want to store data locally is because in some instances, I may have no control over the boot cycle (how much, how often) because the board may be regularly powered up an...

I'm evaluating Raspberry Pi right now for some home automation projects. I am impressed with the 7" touch screen/ Pi 2 combination, but not so much with the Raspberian software. For an embedded application with 1G of memory, it should be entirely possible to have the system boot from SD card, but al...