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At the moment I am using ArchiveMount to mount a 123,000 kb archive that contains more then 3 million files inside. So far it has been mounting for 5+ hours and still isn't finished.

Is there a better way to mount a .tar.gz file? I am trying to mount to a folder, and uncompressed it takes a few gigs. I don't even need write mode, just read-only is sufficient.

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There's also AVFS; I have no idea if it'll perform better. – Gilles Nov 6 '11 at 16:25
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If your files were compressed as a squashfs module instead of as a tarball, then read-only access would be very quick - you just (loop) mount the squashfs module. Requires the squashfs-tools package. – dru8274 Nov 7 '11 at 6:05

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