archivemount
| archivemount | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Andre Landwehr |
| Developer(s) | Andre Landwehr |
| Initial release | 2005 |
| Final release | 0.9.1
/ 20 April 2020 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Special file system |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | www |
archivemount is a FUSE-based file system for Unix variants, including Linux. Its purpose is to mount archives (e.g. tar, tar.gz, etc.) to a mount point where it can be read from or written to as with any other file system. This makes accessing the contents of the archive, which may be compressed, transparent to other programs, without decompressing them.[1]
Archivemount was created in 2005 and maintained until his death in 2020 by Andre Landwehr, a code developer based in Germany.[2][3]
Archivemount-ng
An annonymous Polish code developer who goes by the handle "Nabijaczleweli" announced in 2024 that he/she had forked the project and is the maintainer of the new Archivemount-ng project, the successor to Archivemount. That person ported the code to C++ and fixed most of the Archivemount bugs that had accumulated since 2020.[4][5] Debian unstable,[6] OpenSUSE,[7] and MacPorts[8] had replaced archivemount with archivemount-ng by mid-2025.
See also
References
- ^ "archivemount(1) - Linux man page".
- ^ Landwehr, Andre (2020). "archivemount.c". Cybernoid.
- ^ "Andre Landwehr (1976-2020)". Mindener Tageblatt (in German).
- ^ "Notice of new upstream (due to death of author) #29". Archivemount repository. June 17, 2024 – via Github.
- ^ "Archivemount-NG repository" – via Sourcehut.
- ^ "ARCHIVEMOUNT(1)". Debian.
- ^ "Request 1274518 accepted". Open Build Service. OpenSUSE.
- ^ "archivemount". MacPorts.
External links
- Official website
- GitHub repo
- ArchiveFileSystems via Internet Archive
- Mounting archives with FUSE and archivemount