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OpenAFS is an open source implementation + of the AFS distributed filesystem. Key features include Kerberos support, ACL + protected directories, read-only file replication, file server location + transparency, and client-side file caching. OpenAFS is distributed under the + IBM Public License.

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+ Developers +

Interested in getting involved? Check out the developer's section to find information on getting + started.

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+ Administrators and Users +

Find information on how to deploy and manage OpenAFS.

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See guides and info

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+ Getting help +

+ Commercial support
+ Mailing lists
+ #openafs irc channel on freenode.net
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