AFS is a distributed network filesystem originially developed as part of the AndrewProject at CarnegieMellonUniversity in the mid 1980's. It provides a number of useful features over traditional network filesystems, including:

Today there are three major implementations of the AFS3 protocol:

Elsewhere on this site are a guide to GettingStarted with AFS, some AncientHistory, and a variety of AFS3 ProtocolInfo.

-- JeffreyHutzelman - 18 Jan 2002

Topic revision: r13 - 23 Feb 2005 - 22:55:39 - JosephHVilas
AFSLore.WhatIsAFS moved from AFSLore.AFS on 26 Apr 2003 - 00:42 by Main.guest - put it back
 
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