ADMIN magazineSep 11, 2025
From this week's ADMIN Update newsletter: Jeff Layton dives into the ratarmount archive mounting tool, which offers fast, random access to archived resources
https://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/ratarmount-Archive-Mount-Tool?utm_source=mam
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Martin ███████Aug 14, 2025

#Ratarmount is an excellent tool for mounting archives as filesystems, and I use it a lot. The ratarmount README suggests to prefer indexed tar.xz archives created using pixz for performance, so let’s see what’s the best compression to use.

https://binblog.de/2025/08/14/benchmarking-ratarmount/

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