mxmlnkn/ratarmount
Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 91
- Release rhythm 71
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 34.0
- age_days: 2751
- days_rel: 115
- days_push: 58
- n_releases_24m: 9
Adoption not part of the score
1293 stars · 48 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Ratarmount is a Python CLI tool that builds indexes of TAR and compressed archives (TAR, ZIP, RAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD) and mounts them via FUSE for efficient random-access reads without full extraction. It supports parallel decompression, recursive mounting of nested archives, and union/overlay-style mounting of multiple archives.
Use cases
- mount a tar archive as a filesystem without extracting it
- read a single file from a large compressed tarball quickly
- random access inside gzip or zstd compressed archives
- browse the contents of a zip or rar archive via fuse
- mount multiple archives merged into one directory
- access files inside nested tars in tars
When to choose
- you need fast random-access reads from large or compressed archives without extracting them
- you want to mount archives on Linux/macOS via FUSE
- you work with huge tarballs where full extraction is impractical
When to avoid
- you need to write or modify archive contents (read-only tool)
- you are on Windows without a FUSE-compatible layer
- you only need simple one-shot extraction where plain tar/unzip suffices
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
file-system compression cli files developer-tools python cli fuse tar random-access archive-mounting zstd gzip bzip2 xz zip rar command-line linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount · fetched 2026-08-28 · 09988dda813a
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ratarmount/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 163575836052
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mxmlnkn/ratarmount | main | 86 |
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