Advice on Compact Flash Operation required

[Thomas P. J. <Tom...@oc...>]

Hi folks,

I'm currently setting up a linux unit to boot and operate 
from a compact flash disk (SanDisk).
I'd like to use webmin to configure/monitor this unit.

The main goal is to reduce any writes caused by 
webmin to the compact flash disk -  since it has a
limited life time regarding writes to it. So any temporary
files created during the operation of webmin I'd like
to reduce or eliminate.

I'll be putting /tmp and /var to a RAM Filesystem so
that will help there for any writes webmin makes
to those dirs.

The other main thing I can think of regarding webmin
is the creation/deletion of lock files by the lock_file and
unlock_file functions. My idea here is to modify these
functions to create/delete this lock file from under the 
/tmp/.webmin dir (ie the pathname of the file with the
.lock extension could be created with the root dir
being /tmp/.webmin instead of /. 
eg /tmp/.webmin/etc/resolv.conf.lock instead of
/etc/resolv.conf.lock)

Is there any other element of webmin that I have
overlooked that should need changing as well ?

I'd be interested in any advice you may have on 
this matter. Thanks a lot.

/regards/tom