= ABOUT =

fuse-7z is a FUSE file system that uses the p7zip library to access:
 - 7z archives
 - all archive formats supported by 7-zip !!!

At the moment, the design is in progress, see NOTES.
The current draft is based on lib7zip, but it may change.

= AUTHOR =

Jérôme Carretero
  * E-mail:     [email protected]
  * XMPP:       [email protected]
  * Homepage:   http://zougloub.eu

= LICENSE =

fuse-7z is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.
Read LICENCE for more information.

= USAGE =

The fuse-7z binary needs the directory containing 7z.so in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The shell wrapper wraps the call to fuse-7z to do that, and that's all.

Mounting an archive with fuse-7z is like mounting another typical FUSE filesystem.  

{{{
$ fuse-7z --automount foobar.zip ~/mount
(do something with the mounted file system)
$ fusermount -u ~/mount
}}}

Note: --automount makes the target folder if not present.

See the FUSE documentation for details.

= NOTES =

Currently, the code is in a proof of concept stage.
This is not optimal but seems OK for the moment, to read archives.
All the properties of all the files in the archive are read at initialization.
But it happens to be quite fast.

Only reads are planned at the moment, as the lib7zip library only supports them.
Writes will come later, if they come : I have no idea on how to perform optimal writes on big archives,
 and I don't know any real (sane) use case of writing in archives.