sparsebundle-fuse

macOS sparsebundle compatible network block device (NBD) / FUSE filesystem

Prerequisites

• libfuse
• nbdkit

Building

Linux

(The fuse implementation is also macOS compatible, but you should use the system built-in Disk Utility instead of this.)

git clone --recursive https://github.com/gyf304/sparsebundle-fuse.git
cd sparsebundle-fuse
autoreconf -i
./configure
# build everything
make

Usage

NBD

1. Install nbdkit (see https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit, your distro may have this already)
2. Build nbdkit plugin make sparse-nbd.so
3. Run nbdkit ./sparse-nbd.so path=SPARSEBUNDLE (refer to man nbdkit)
4. Connect to NBD (refer to man nbd-client)

FUSE

1. Install fuse (see https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse, your distro may have this already)
2. Build fuse program make sparse-fuse
3. Run ./sparse-fuse SPARSEBUNDLE MOUNTPOINT
4. There should be a sparsebundle.dmg file under MOUNTPOINT

mksparse

This is a script for creating a sparsebundle.

mksparse [-s SIZE] [-b BLOCKSIZE] SPARSEBUNDLE

mksparse -s 1G ./test.sparsebundle