ARCHFS(4)ARCHFS(4)NAMEarchfs - mount a mkfs archive
SYNOPSISarchfs [ -ab ] [ -s ] [ -m mountpoint ] archfile [ prefix ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Archfs mounts at mountpoint (default: /mnt/arch), a read-only file sys‐
tem representing the contents of archfile, which is a file of the for‐
mat produced by mkfs(8) with the -a option. Typically the archive file
will have been created by mkfs(8) or create(8). Any prefix names limit
the file system's contents to files and directories in the archive
whose path names start with one of the prefixes.
The -a and -b options cause the archive contents to be mounted after or
before the mount point's existing contents, in a union dirctory (see
bind(1) for details). Normally the archive contents replace the con‐
tents of mountpoint. The -s option causes the rest of the archive to
be skipped once a file is found in the archive which does not start
with any of the given prefixes. This is useful an archive is known to
start with a description of its contents (eg, the /wrap directory pro‐
vided by create(8)), and that is all that is needed under mountpoint.
SOURCE
/appl/cmd/archfs.b
SEE ALSOtarfs(4), mkfs(8), create(8)ARCHFS(4)