archivefs

archivefs - mount your archives and browse them as regular files

Usage

archivefs [-sdf] --directory=/some/absolute/path /mountpoint

Features

• Expand archives as directories
• Reads files from an archive as a regular file
• Shows non-archive files and directories as normal

Quick example

$ tree .
.
├── archives
│   └── maskinen.tar.gz
└── mountpoint

2 directories, 1 file
$ archivefs --directory=$HOME/example/archives mountpoint/
$ tree .
.
├── archives
│   └── maskinen.tar.gz
└── mountpoint
    └── maskinen
        ├── pengar.txt
        └── segertaget.txt

3 directories, 3 files
$ cat mountpoint/maskinen/segertaget.txt | head -n5
[Vers 1]
He-he-hej, här kommer segertåget
Rullar in som teknodromen
Tryck på play, du sätter på den
Dansar som på, äh, vi kör igen

Description

archivefs is a FUSE file system for mounting and reading from archive files instead of unpacking them to read the content.

Building

To build archivefs there are some packages that are required to be installed on the system:

• libfuse (or osxfuse)
• libarchive
• Rust
• A C compiler
• Homebrew

To build the project you run the make command:

$ brew bundle # Installs dependencies for building the project
$ make

Bugs

archivefs does not handle nested directories inside an archive file properly. For now only flat archvies are compatiable.

If you get the following error message you can try setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the path of the libarchivefs library:

$ ./archivefs
./archivefs: error while loading shared libraries: libarchivefs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./target/release/deps ./archivefs
Need to set which archive you want to mount

Good links

• https://fossies.org/dox/fuse-2.9.7/fuse__compat_8h_source.html