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The File Filesystem (2021)

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346 points wegwerff | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.289s | source
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RetroTechie ◴[30 Apr 24 20:10 UTC] No.40215710[source]▶
Useful enough that it should be an OS-level standard feature, imho.

Unix-like OSes allow mounting disk images to explore their contents. But there's many more file formats where exploring files-inside-files is useful. Compressed archives, for one. Some file managers support those, but (imho) application-level is not the optimal layer to put this functionality.

Could be implemented with a kind of driver-per-filetype.

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1. crabbone ◴[01 May 24 16:42 UTC] No.40225726[source]▶
I thought archivemount already did that. Am I missing something?

Anyway, even if that's not what you are looking for, FUSE is a more general mechanism that will allow you to do what you want (well, it seems like, at least) and much more.