Re: [opensuse] Transparent Archive (TAR or Zip) Access for Linux?

On Friday 29 August 2008 12:25, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
Randall R Schulz schreef:
Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a Linux counterpart to the Windows
ability to treat Zip files as if they're just directories,
transparently deriving directory information and automatically
extracting their contents on demand?

...

Sounds like you are asking for a Filesystem in USErspace aka FUSE.

...
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ArchiveFileSystems

I think you'll find what you need over there.

I tried archivemount. It works beautifully. I just had to install
libarchive (available via Guru's Packages for 10.0) and, for some
reason, manually issue the "insmod" call for the FUSE kernel module.

I wrote a little script, "am" to facilitate easy mounting and unmounting
of archive files.

What's more, while the capsule summary on the page to which you referred
me says that archivemount handles cpio, tar.gz, tar.bz2, I find that it
also handles .zip and uncompressed .tar, too. I guess it's up to
libarchive which formats are handled, so presumably all those mentioned
on the man page installed with libarchive are also handled:

· old-style tar archives,
· most variants of the POSIX “ustar” format,
· the POSIX “pax interchange” format,
· GNU-format tar archives,
· most common cpio archive formats,
· ISO9660 CD images (with or without RockRidge extensions),
· Zip archives.
The library automatically detects archives compressed with gzip(1),
bzip2(1), or compress(1) and decompresses them transparently.


I confirmed that ISO images work with archivemount. To me (and with my
helper script), this is a nice convenience by comparison to mounting
ISOs via a loopback device.


Thanks again for the pointer. This is very useful.


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Amedee


Randall Schulz
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