fusezipfs3

fusezipfs3

Mount zip files as a regular filesystem.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Limitations
• How To Install
• Usage Example
  • How to mount
  • How to unmount
• License

Introduction

The fusezipfs3 was made to help me with zip archives management which I use to store some resource files and constantly updated stuff. I didn't want to use those additional scripts and code to search, extract and insert the file back any time I wanted to change a single line in a single file that lies in a zip archive. This is why the fusezipfs3 was born, and now, my beloved find and sed doesn't even know that input files are archive's entries.

Features

• Read/Write support
• UTF-8
• Zero dependencies (only fuse3)
• Entirely written in C

Limitations

Since it is a zip archive there are some limitations. You can't use a regular filesystem operations such as symlinks or any kind of links, change permissions and timestamps. Write operations are singlethreded othrewise it would ruine the entire zip archive every time changes applied simultaniously. Which is why it copies files one by one. Anyways it works fast enough.

How To install

The build and installation process is simple as:

./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install

Usage Example

How to mount

Lets say we would like to create a new zip file and copy something into it.

mkdir zipdir
fusezipfs3 ./zipfile.zip ./zipdir
cp ~/Documents/cat-names.txt ./zipdir

zipfile.zip was created and mounted into ./zipdir directory. Then, using cp command we coppy our cat-names.txt into archive. It is simple as working with a regular filesystem.

How to unmount

libfuse3 itself provides fusermount3 command, just use it:

fusermount3 -u ./zipdir

The -u option of fusermount3stands for unmount.

License

GPLv2

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 Author: g0tsu
 Email:  g0tsu at dnmx.0rg