In need of a virtual filesystem / archive

[bonono at gmail.com]

may be store them in sqlite ?

On linux, fuse can also be an interesting option, gmailfs is written in
python.

Enigma Curry wrote:
> I need to store a large number of files in an archive. From Python, I
> need to be able to create an archive, put files into it, modify files
> that are already in it, and delete files already in it.
>
> The easy solution would be to use a zip file or a tar file. Python has
> good standard modules for accessing those types. However, I would tend
> to think that modifying or deleting files in the archive would require
> rewriting the entire archive.
>
> Is there any archive format that can allow Python to modify a file in
> the archive *in place*? That is to say if my archive is 2GB large and I
> have a small text file in the archive I want to be able to modify that
> small text file (or delete it) without having to rewrite the entire
> archive to disk.
>
> Does anything like this exist? If nothing exists for Python, is there
> something written in C maybe that I could wrap (preferably you won't
> suggest wrapping the ext2 filesystem driver..  ;) ?