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1 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:
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3 - [[AccessControlLists]]
4 - [[UserManagedGroups]]
5 - [[KerberosAuthentication]]
6 - [[TransparentVolumeMoves]]
7 - [[VolumeReplication]]
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9 Today there are three major implementations of the AFS3 protocol:
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11 - [[IBM/AFS]]
12 - [[OpenAFS]]
13 - [[ArlaAFS]]
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15 Elsewhere on this site are a guide to [[GettingStarted]] with AFS, some [[AncientHistory]], and a variety of AFS3 [[ProtocolInfo]].
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17 -- [[JeffreyHutzelman]] - 18 Jan 2002
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