Sometimes when I post, it makes sense in my head.
My files are gzipped binary files. I have to send them through another program to get them into the text format. The issue is that after processing they are very large and it is easier to break my task into mutiple scripts. Keeping the file in memory is cumbersome.
I haven't had time to write something to process the binary format directly, but that is probably next on the list.
My question was more about possible problems with using ramfs.