Only peripherally relevant, but also see Ratarmount: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount It lets you mount .tar files a

Only peripherally relevant, but also see Ratarmount: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount It lets you mount .tar files as a read only filesystem. It’s cool because you basically get random access to the tarball without paying any decompression costs. (It builds an index saying exactly where so-and-so is for every file.)