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:
- ?AccessControlLists
- ?UserManagedGroups
- ?KerberosAuthentication
- Transparent volume moves
- ?VolumeReplication
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.
-- Jeffrey Hutzelman - 18 Jan 2002