ratarmount ☆

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Description:
Mount and efficiently access archives as filesystems

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.2.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 20, 2025

Links: Homepage | GitHub | formulae.brew.sh

Stars: 1,167 | Forks: 44 | Language: Python | Category: System utilities

Tags: fuse archive mount filesystem python

Install: brew install ratarmount

About:
Ratarmount is a tool that mounts various archive formats like TAR, ZIP, RAR, and GZIP as filesystems using FUSE. It provides efficient, random, read-only access to large archives without needing to extract them, optimizing performance by indexing and caching metadata.

Key Features:

Supports TAR, ZIP, RAR, GZIP, BZIP2, and 7Z formats
Efficient random access using index files
FUSE-based mounting for native filesystem access
Low memory footprint for large archives
CLI-based for easy automation

Use Cases:

Accessing large datasets stored in compressed archives without extraction
Browsing and retrieving specific files from backups or logs
Integrating archive access into automated scripts and pipelines

Alternatives:

archivemount – archivemount is slower and less efficient with large files; ratarmount uses indexing for better performance.
fuse-zip – fuse-zip is limited to ZIP files, whereas ratarmount supports multiple formats.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 20, 2025 10:14pm	1.2.1	0	VERSION_BUMP	2411f06a
Nov 6, 2025 8:21am		1	VERSION_BUMP	548e5bed
Oct 13, 2025 2:41am		0	VERSION_BUMP	b4c74e74