the stated solution is to "load the file contents into RAM at system bootup" Wait, so you want games on your hard drive because SSD space is too expensive (~55

the stated solution is to "load the file contents into RAM at system bootup" Wait, so you want games on your hard drive because SSD space is too expensive (~55€/TB), so then you permanently occupy some RAM instead (at ~6500€/TB)? Have you tried doing a linear read from disk instead, like to use zstd for good compression and fast decompression of the Factorio data folder and then make a Factorio shortcut that does like: $ cat run-factorio.sh mkdir /dev/shm/factorio cd /dev/shm/factorio tar xf ~/games/factorio.tar.zstd /dev/shm/factorio/bin/x64/factorio # the above line will block so long as the game runs tar c . | zstd -T0 -19 > ~/games/factorio.tar.zstd echo Finished saving Factorio data back to disk such that all reads on startup (and beyond) will be from RAM but only while you are actually running the game?