fuse-archive

FUSE file system for archives and compressed files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ISO, TGZ, XZ...)

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FUSE file system for archives and compressed files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ISO, TGZ, XZ...)

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2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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The libfuse github has some good examples for C/C++ in [0] of increasing complexity: - passthrough.c mirrors existing filesystem, "Its performance is terrible." - passthrough_fh.c "performance is not quite as bad." - passthrough_ll.c implemented with low level api and "the least bad among the three" - passthrough_hp.cc high performance version written in C++ Some interesting fuse projects in my notes: [1] splitting large files into segments; [2] show ZFS incremental snapshots as files; [3] transparent filesystem compression; [4] and [5] options for mounting archives as filesytems. - [0] https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/tree/master/example - [1] https://github.com/seiferma/splitviewfuse - [2] https://github.com/UNFmontreal/zfs_fuse_snapshot - [3] https://github.com/FS-make-simple/fusecompress - [4] https://github.com/google/fuse-archive

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