AVFS
AVFS (A Virtual File System) is an easy-to-install system that enables all programs to access archived, compressed, remote, or other kind of virtual files without the need to recompile programs or the kernel. The following modules are currently implemented: tar, zip, rar, gzip, bzip2, ftp, http, dav, rsh/ssh, floppy, and many more.
| Tags | Filesystems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Solaris |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 04 Jun 2007 10:54
Changes: Bugs in the zlib, utar, and extfs modules have been fixed, and there are many other small improvements in the extfs code.
- 21 Jul 2005 15:02
Changes: This release adds support for returning an error value from the close operation. In addition, extfs was fixed so that patchfs works again, and the urar module was improved so that now it is able to access rar archives from newer rar versions.
- 09 Jan 2002 08:24
Changes: Compile issues and other general issues have been addressed.
- 19 Oct 2001 10:30
Changes: This is mostly a bugfix release, but the filename lookup for large directories has also been optimized.
- 20 Jun 2001 15:54
Changes: This is the first public release after a major rewrite, so don't expect it to be bug free (but most things should work as usual). The biggest user-visible change is that the magic char has changed from '@' to '#'. There are new modules for FTP, HTTP, rsh, SSH and DAV. There are also a number of speed enhancements (gzip and bzip2 in particular).
