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FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives
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Transparent mount with automatic decompression #1

Closed onnokort closed 4 years ago

onnokort commented 10 years ago

Hi,

first of all, thanks for your software!

It would be great if squashfuse would have a mode to mount a directory and check whether the magic bytes of any file mark it as a squashfs image - and then transparently decompressing it. Otherwise it would pass through all I/O to the underlying file system. I know that there are other solutions to mount archive files etc., but as far as I can see they are a) all out of date and b) none of them supports squashfs images.

Cheers!

vasi commented 10 years ago

Cool idea! Eventually I intend to turn most of squashfuse into a library (libsquashfs?) that understands how to read squashfs images. Then you could write an alternative frontend filesystem that does different things than the default squashfuse.