Name
mount_volfs
Synopsis
mount_volfs [-omount_options
]mount_point
Description
Mounts the volfs
filesystem in
/.vol
. The volfs
filesystem
enables the Carbon File Manager API to map a file ID to a file,
without knowing the BSD path to it. Thus, HFS aliases, which use file
IDs, remain consistent, even if the targets of the aliases move
around within the volume.
The /.vol
directory contains subdirectories
named with numeric IDs, each associated with a volume on the system.
While the directories appear empty if listed, with a file or
directory ID one can access any object on those volumes. A file ID is
a unique number associated with each file on a volume (analogous to
an inode number on a UFS-formatted filesystem), and can be viewed
with the -i
option of ls
.
If you know a file’s ID, you can access it as
/.vol/vol_ID/file_ID
. If you know the ID of the
directory the file is in, you can also access it as
/.vol/vol_ID/dir_ID/filename
. The root directory
of a volume always has a directory ID of 2, so you can map volume IDs
to volumes with:
% cd /.vol/ vol_ID
/2; pwd
Options/Usage
- -o
Takes -
o
options as listed in themount
manpage. Not normally used formount_volfs
.-
mount_point
The directory on which the filesystem will be mounted, normally
/.vol
.
Location
/sbin
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