How do I append files to a .tar archive in Java?

Question

I would like to create a tar archive in Java. I have files which are constantly being created and I\'d like a worker thread to take a reference to those files from a queue and c

Answer 1

You run here in a limitation of tar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)#Random_access

because of that it is hard to add or remove single files without copying the whole archive.