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bugnano

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Registered: 2020-12-11

Posts: 6

archivefs - archivemount, but way faster

Hello everyone,
I just released version 1.0.0 of my archivefs utility in the AUR.

archivefs is a read-only FUSE filesystem for mounting compressed archives, inspired by archivemount.

You can mount a compressed archive in a directory and explore its contents without extracting it.
If you want to extract a file, simply copy it to the destination directory.

It is several orders of magnitudes faster than archivemount when extracting big files (try to extract a file that is over 100Mb with archivemount, and then try it with archivefs).

You can install it via the AUR with the "archivefs" package name, or you can check out the source code here:

https://github.com/bugnano/archivefs

Enjoy