Can you force the Metadata Index Cache to write to ~/.ratarmount?

First off: HOLY CRAP ratarmount IS AWESOME. 🎉 👍 💯 Thank you!

If you point ratarmount at a tarball on a remote filesystem, SQLite will fail to write the index sidecar.

Is there a way to force ratarmount to write to ~/.ratarmount instead?

[mxmlnkn]

While I’m asking for new features: have you considered making the -r option work for directories of tarballs? I can certainly run a for loop and mount them all individually, but a super-powered -r would be pretty sweet.

Hi there again. I added this functionality including some tests on the develop branch. I’d still be glad if you could test it out and see whether that’s what you wanted or whether I misunderstood you. Note that you can control the mount position a bit with --strip-recursive-tar-extension. So for example, you should be able to do:

ratarmount --strip-recursive-tar-extension --recursive --index-folders "$( mktemp -d )" <my-folder-with-many-tars> <mount-point-with-all-those-tars-mounted>

[mxmlnkn]

Thank you for your time 😃