AFS

👥kind protocolusage storageenc optionaltopology federatedentity federated
started
1984
by
John Howard, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
homepage
https://www.openafs.org
wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

Federated network filesystem from CMU's Andrew Project. Cell-based namespace lets independently administered sites federate into a global /afs/<cell>/... tree; Kerberos auth, location-transparent paths, aggressive client-side caching. The historical model FedFS later tried (and failed) to retrofit onto NFSv4. Still maintained as OpenAFS.

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