Preloading the list of routes at startup would solve the pause when we go into the 'select a route' menu, but I don't see what the use would be when the current stat (actually opendir) is left in place. As soon as we call stat or opendir, the process is stalled until the disk is spun up, it doesn't matter if we use or discard the result

Good point. I wonder if there's any kernel ioctl that can force a spin up with an immediate return?
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