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I'm pretty sure the article implies this is for user-facing applications where the user would manually extract it once to a place of their choosing then run it
by RX14 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the article implies this is for user-facing applications where the user would manually extract it once to a place of their choosing then run it from there. I think you're missing the point of the whole article.
- theamk 8y agoBut why would you want to extract if you can mount the file directly? For simple archives, extracting is fine. But for larger archives (like a compiler -- 1000 files or more), loop-mounting is much better than extracting: - Does not slow down your backup by adding thousands of files - No need to wait for initial file extraction - You can quickly and easily verify integrity of the whole archive And if you are using fuse, it does not require any special privileges either!