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does a kernel module that mounts archives as read-only directories could be good idea?

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recently I'm wondering why program installed on linux systems are just archives extracted inside system paths and not just archives mounted as read-only entry-points.

As far as I understood, Android apk files are archives that are live-mounted when the app is opened, so why there's nothing similar under other linux-based systems like desktop or server OSs?

Recently I've attended a Linux Kernel Programming course and I thought that to implement a module that automatically creates mount points with given archives could be a cool idea, but I'm guessing if anyone thought it before and why this idea could have been discarded. Personally, I did not find anything useful.

Has anyone have some information or hint on this topic?


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