This would be nice. I had been making squashfs filesystems to mount in a similar way (and then using UnionFS to put a copy-on-write layer over it), but squashfs support isn't so widespread as tar support is, so I'd like to routinely do this with tar files instead.
The linux.com link above is now 404, but (at least today) is available from the Google cache via: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:M1rSFSHxOL8J:www.linux.com/feature/132196+fuse+tar&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a -- [needs-packaging] Archivemount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218602 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs