Open source embedded filesystem (or single file virtual filesystem, or structured storage) library for C [closed]

Answer 1

What about BerkeleyDB? It's not exactly a filesystem but it's quite transparent to store 'binary data' in a file. License seems to be quite permissive as well.

Answer 2

This appears to do what I was looking for: libgsf

Still need to test its reliability/performance and how cross-platform the binary format is.

Answer 3

It sounds like you're talking about the Linux loopback device, which lets you treat a file on a filesystem as a first-class block device (and then proceed to mkfs, mount, etc.)

(What sort of platform are you targetting? A fully-featured Unixlike? Something in the embedded space with a small footprint?)

Answer 4

Eet library from the Enlightenment project maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Foundation_Libraries#EET http://docs.enlightenment.org/api/eet/html/

Answer 5

The WxWindows library supports ZIP files (see http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxarc.html#wxarc). This has also the advantage that you can look at the contents using a ZIP manager (e.g. WINZIP).

A commercial alternative is ChillKat (http://www.chilkatsoft.com/)

If security is a concern, encrypt the file contents and mangle the file names in the ZIP archive.