Cool User File Systems: ArchiveMount

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 22, 2010 5:22 AM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Jeffrey B. Layton 		Mail this story
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Have you ever wanted to look inside a tar.gz file but without expanding it? Have you ever wanted to just dump files in a .tar.gz file without having to organize it and periodically tar and gzip this data? This article presents another REALLY useful user-space file system, archivemount. It allows you to mount archives such as .tar.gz files as a file system and interact with it using normal file/directory tools.

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