If I've got a compressed filesystem image, say cd.iso.gz , is it possible
to get mount to mount it without first decompressing it?
Short answer is "no".
The loop driver is looking for an uncompressed file. It needs to be
able to seek to a specific point in the file. Gzip is a stream
compression technique that does not handle seeking to an arbitrary point
in the stream without uncompressing from the beginning.
Alan
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