Tarfs
makes the contents of the directories and files archived in the given Unix/POSIX
tar
archive
tarfile
visible in the name space under
mountpt.
They can then be accessed in an obvious way by other commands
such as
ls(1)
and
cp(1).
Only read access is supported.
User and group names are taken from the ``ustar'' headers when present. Otherwise, the numeric user and group IDs are used.
The
-a
and
-b
options cause the
tarfile's
name space to be placed after or before the current contents of
mountpt;
the default is to replace that directory's contents.
Option
-p
causes permissions in the tar file to be discarded.