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AUTHORS

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+Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com>

LICENSE

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+Copyright (c) 2012, Tor Arne Vestbø. All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
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+ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
+SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

README.md

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+sparsebundlefs
+================
+
+FUSE filesystem for reading Mac OS sparse-bundle disk images.
+
+Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) introduced the concept of sparse-bundle disk images, where the data is
+stored as a set of small fixed-size *band* files instead of as a single monolithic file. This
+allows for more effective backups of the disk image, as only the changed bands need to be
+stored.
+
+One common client of sparse-bundles is Mac OS's backup utility, *Time Machine*, which stores
+the backup data within a sparse-bundle image on the chosen backup volume.
+
+This software package implements a FUSE virtual filesystem for read-only access to the sparse-
+bundle, as if it was a single monolithic image.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Clone the project from GitHub:
+
+    git clone git://github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs.git
+
+Or download the latest tar-ball:
+
+    curl -L https://github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs/tarball/master | tar xvz
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+  - [OSXFUSE][osxfuse] on *Mac OS X*
+  - `apt get install libfuse-dev libfuse2 fuse-utils` on Debian-based *GNU/Linux* distros
+  - Or install the latest FUSE manually from [source][fuse]
+
+Compile:
+
+    make
+
+**Note:** If your FUSE installation is in a non-default location you may have to
+export `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` before compiling.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+To mount a `.sparsebundle` disk image, execute the following command:
+
+    sparsebundlefs [-o options] sparsebundle mountpoint
+
+For example:
+
+    sparsebundlefs ~/MyDiskImage.sparsebundle /tmp/my-disk-image
+
+This will give you a directory at the mount point with a single `sparsebundle.dmg` file.
+
+You may then proceed to mount the `.dmg` file using regular means, *eg.*:
+
+    mount -o loop -t hfsplus /tmp/my-disk-image/sparsebundle.dmg /mnt/my-disk
+
+This will give you read-only access to the content of the sparse-bundle disk image.
+
+License
+-------
+
+This software is licensed under the [BSD two-clause "simplified" license][bsd].
+
+
+
+[osxfuse]: http://osxfuse.github.com/ "Fuse for OSX"
+[fuse]: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ "FUSE"
+[bsd]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause "BSD two-clause license"