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Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives

18 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 7 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-11-11 · latest 2026-05-04

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  1. …but not LIBARCHIVE.* ones: * https://mgorny.pl/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html#... * Via: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount/issues/145 bsdtar ≥3.7.2 apparently adds both types to its files for maximum portability: *…
    comment by throw0101a · 2026-05-04 · in Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
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    ratarmount: Access large tarballs as a filesystem efficiently
    story by sillysaurusx · 2026-04-25 · 0 comments
  3. …you can reduce the amount of data you need to decompress for one file access to a constant. https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount does this, apparently using https://github.com/pauldmccarthy/indexed_gzip internally. zlib even has an…
    comment by phiresky · 2026-04-24 · in Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
  4. Only peripherally relevant, but also see Ratarmount: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount It lets you mount .tar files as a read only filesystem. It’s cool because you basically get random access to the tarball without paying any…
    comment by sillysaurusx · 2026-04-24 · in Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
  5. https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount > fsspec support: To use all fsspec features, either install via pip install ratarmount[fsspec] or pip install ratarmount[fsspec]. It should also suffice to simply pip install fsspec if ratarmountcore…
    comment by alchemist1e9 · 2025-03-06 · in Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?
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    Show HN: Ratarmount 1.0.0 – Rapid access to large archives via a FUSE filesystem
    story by mxmlnkn · 2024-11-01 · 6 comments
  7. …https://github.com/FS-make-simple/fusecompress - [4] https://github.com/google/fuse-archive - [5] https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
    comment by dsp_person · 2024-10-11 · in Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
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    Ask HN: A better Criu Alternative for decompression software / Erlang?
    story by Imustaskforhelp · 2024-09-15 · 0 comments
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    Ratarmount: Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently
    story by PaulHoule · 2024-04-11 · 0 comments
  10. …* sqlite3://output.db` (basically?) Really seems to make sense! For another fun compression trick: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
    comment by ramses0 · 2024-03-22 · in Pack: A new container format for compressed files
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    Show HN: Rapidgzip – Truly Parallel Gzip Decompression with 10 GB/s
    story by mxmlnkn · 2023-09-04 · 12 comments
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    Ratarmount: Random Access Tar Mount
    story by ingve · 2023-05-14 · 0 comments
  13. Not sure about Windows. On Linux we use https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
    comment by pilimi_anna · 2023-05-14 · in Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library
  14. This is basically the same reason why I started with ratarmount ( https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount ) but the focus was more on runtime performance and random access and as the name suggests it started out with access to recursive tar…
    comment by mxmlnkn · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
  15. …in ratarmount to offer random access to TAR files that is magnitudes faster than archivemount: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
    comment by mxmlnkn · 2022-10-11 · in How much faster is making a tar archive without gzip?
  16. …ls -lah mountpoint Or via the experimental AppImage I created this week: wget -O ratarmount 'https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount/releases/download/v0.10.0/ratarmount-manylinux2014_x86_64.AppImage' chmod u+x ratarmount ./ratarmount --help…
    comment by mxmlnkn · 2022-03-10 · in Show HN: Ratarmount – Access archives through FUSE 100x faster than archivemount
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    Show HN: Ratarmount – Access archives through FUSE 100x faster than archivemount
    story by mxmlnkn · 2022-03-10 · 1 comment
  18. …as often the files are GBs or more compressed. But I've started using a tool called "ratarmount" ( https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount ) which creates an index once (and something I could automate our upload system to generate in…
    comment by lathiat · 2021-11-11 · in Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual files