Thanks buddy, do you have any examples using spiffs with Arduino ESP?
I really don't want to go down the Lua route . I did play with this way back and was not impressed on how much memory and resources where lost.
Guys thanks for all your input, My idea is to check a webserver and see if a file on their is a later date, if so pull it down and update config info, this could be stored in EEprom for retrieval after re boot.