Zip Filesystem Support


CoMiKe

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Wouldn't be nice to have the ability to mount zip files on a directory on user request?

This idea comes from the Open2X firmware project. I read it sometime ago in the Open2X thread, I think.

It would be very useful for emulators with a large number of small roms (Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, etc). It's a pain to copy all those small files to the SD card.

So it would be good if we have the option to zip all those small files and mount the zip before launching the emulator, because some GP2X emulators (Stella, GP2XSpectrum, etc) that will be probably ported to Pandora don't have the option to explore zip archives containing multiple files.

Hope to see this implemented. :)

TAGS: zipfs fuse
 
atomicthumbs said:
Yes! I tried to find a FUSE module to do this, but I don't think any exist.
There's a "proof of concept" one included with the FUSE-J Java FUSE bindings that is alleged to work pretty well. We might be able to crib from those and produce a C/C++ version with it as an example. Or, better yet, we might be able to make a native code version of the FUSE-J implementation using gcj...
 
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