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The central computers and distributed workstations maintained by Research
Computing all use AFS. Thayer School of Engineering also uses
AFS on their computers.
AFS is a distributed filesystem product (originally Andrew File
System), pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as
a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs), and then released
by IBM under an open-source license. It is now maintained and developed
as OpenAFS by OpenAFS.Org.
It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location
independence, scalability, and transparent migration capabilities for data.
Client software is available for almost all versions of UNIX, including Mac OS
X and Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Kerberos is used for access
control.
The client software may be installed on any suitable computer and provides
direct access to the user files and installed software packages. All clients
see the same exact view of the fileservers, although unauthenticated users will
only have access to those parts that are publicly readable.
OpenAFS has client software freely
available for many platforms. Complete documentation is available; see OpenAFS Documentation.
Listed below are the platforms tested and used by Computing Services, with
pointers to installation instructions and hints for each.
For more information related to this topic, see:
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