Posted by: David Mohring
on December 05, 2004 10:46 PM
<A HREF="http://www.openafs.org/main.html" title="openafs.org">What is AFS?</a openafs.org>
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.
IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.
There a a few <A HREF="http://www.openafs.org/success.html" title="openafs.org">OpenAFS Success Stories</a openafs.org> and lots more details about successful deployments from the recent <A HREF="http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices/program.htm" title="stanford.edu"> OpenAFS Best Practices Workshop</a stanford.edu>.
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Why no mention of OpenAFS?
Posted by: David Mohring on December 05, 2004 10:46 PMThere a a few <A HREF="http://www.openafs.org/success.html" title="openafs.org">OpenAFS Success Stories</a openafs.org> and lots more details about successful deployments from the recent <A HREF="http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices/program.htm" title="stanford.edu"> OpenAFS Best Practices Workshop</a stanford.edu>.
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