Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

2 comments

• Ecco 29 minutes ago
  How about using a format that has actually been designed to be a compressed read-only filesystem? Something like a SquashFS or cramfs disk image?
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  • stingraycharles 5 minutes ago
    Sometimes (read: very often) you can’t choose the format. Obviously if squashfs is available that is a better solution.
• sillysaurusx 1 hour ago
  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 decompression costs. (It builds an index saying exactly where so-and-so is for every file.)