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: - [[IBMAFS]] - [[OpenAFS]] - [[ArlaAFS]] Elsewhere on this site are a guide to [[GettingStarted]] with AFS, some [[AncientHistory]], and a variety of AFS3 [[ProtocolInfo]]. -- Jeffrey Hutzelman - 18 Jan 2002