KaitaiFS

KaitaiFS is a tool that allows you to mount any filesystem image, container, archive file, etc, in a format specified using Kaitai Struct <http://kaitai.io> .ksy file.

Internally, it provides a thin binding of a Python parser generated by Kaitai Struct compiler from a .ksy file to a FUSE (filesystem in userspace) Python API.

Installing

Prerequisites: FUSE (tested on a Linux system, should work on Mac OS X as well).

• Clone this repository
• Run python setup.py install

How to extend

Adapting any .ksy file to work with KaitaiFS should be pretty easy. Generally, one needs to create a new binding file in fs package. For inspirations, see quake_pak_fs for a filesystem with a flat list of file entries (note that file paths inside the filesystem may be still hierarchical, it's just a list of file entries that is flat!) and iso9660_fs for an example of a real-life tree-based filesystem used on almost every data CD-ROM.

Licensing

KaitaiFS is copyright (C) 2017 Kaitai Project.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

KaitaiFS uses parsers generated with Kaitai Struct, which are licensed as specified in source .ksy files.