Archivemount

archivemount
Original authorAndre Landwehr
DeveloperAndre Landwehr
Release2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Final release
0.9.1 / 20 April 2020; 6 years ago (2020-04-20)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
SuccessorArchivemount-ng
TypeSpecial file system
LicenseLGPL
Websitewww.cybernoia.de/software/archivemount.html
Repository

archivemount is a FUSE-based file system for Unix variants, including Linux. Its purpose is to mount archives (e.g. tar, tar.gz, etc.) to a mount point where it can be read from or written to as with any other file system. This makes accessing the contents of the archive, which may be compressed, transparent to other programs, without decompressing them. Archivemount depends on libarchive and will support any format that is supported by libarchive.[1]

Archivemount was created in 2005 and maintained until his death in 2020 by Andre Landwehr, a code developer based in Germany.[2][3]

Archivemount-ng

An anonymous Polish programmer who goes by the handle "Nabijaczleweli" announced in June 2024 that they had forked the project and is the maintainer of the new Archivemount-ng project, the successor to Archivemount. The code was ported to C++ and most of the Archivemount bugs that had accumulated since 2020 were fixed.[4][5] Debian unstable,[6] OpenSUSE,[7] Ubuntu (since Questing Quokka),[8] Arch Linux,[9] MacPorts,[10] and Homebrew[11] had replaced archivemount with archivemount-ng by early-2026.

The most recently released version of Archivemount-ng is version "1b" that was released in June 2025.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "archivemount(1) - Linux man page".
  2. ^ Landwehr, Andre (2020). "archivemount.c". Cybernoid.
  3. ^ "Andre Landwehr (1976-2020)". Mindener Tageblatt (in German).
  4. ^ "Notice of new upstream (due to death of author) #29". Archivemount repository. June 17, 2024 – via Github.
  5. ^ "Archivemount-NG repository" – via SourceHut.
  6. ^ "ARCHIVEMOUNT(1)". Debian.
  7. ^ "Request 1274518 accepted". Open Build Service. OpenSUSE.
  8. ^ "archivemount package in Ubuntu". Ubuntu.
  9. ^ "Package Details: archivemount-ng". Arch Linux.
  10. ^ "archivemount". MacPorts.
  11. ^ "archivemount". Homebrew.
  12. ^ "Refs". Archivemount-ng.


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