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The only result of any import when I searched for this was from 2001.

In the intervening decade, have any tools/methods for mounting a tar file as a filesystem (perhaps utilizing fuse) been created?

If so, what are they, and how do they work?

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See also Is there away to mount a file.tar.bz2 without extracting onto your fs – Sathya♦ Apr 2 '11 at 19:10
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5 years later, and someone benefits again from this question. – insaner Apr 1 '16 at 2:23
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In fact, it seems that at least with newer Ubuntu1 versions it is possible to simply apt-get install archivemount. Then you can mount your archive as

archivemount [archive file] [mount point]

1: I tried in Ubuntu 13.04.

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Generally works fine in Ubuntu 16.04, although it failed for me with a large (18 GB) .7z archive: it just showed as empty. – BeeOnRope Jan 8 '17 at 0:30
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A friend posted me about archivemount (actual archive).

There's a bit of work to get it setup (ie, it's not merely yum install archivemount).

It needs libarchive and fuse-devel (yum install fuse-devel) installed.

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