compound-file

I'm trying to save a couple of files to a container file. The files can be modified later which means the container might have to be enlarged. The user should only see this container as a single file in the file system. The application is written in C++ and running on Windows, but the files should be portable to other platforms as well. The requirements for the container format are: 1. Size : Allow files bigger than 4GB. 2. Portability : It should be feasible to open the container files on other platforms. 3. Performance : When changing a file inside the container, only the "chunks" that

I'm not sure what the "general" name of something like this might be. I'm looking for a library that gives me a file format to store different types of binary data in an expanding single file. open source, non-GPL (LGPL ok) C interface the file format is a single file multiple files within using a POSIX-like file API (or multiple "blobs" within using some other API) file/structure editing is done in-place reliable first, performant second Examples include: the virtual drives of a virtual machine whefs HDF CDF NetCDF Problems with the above: whefs doesn't appear to be very mature, but best