2006-02-06 07:39:24 -05:00
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AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon
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University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc
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Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server
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architecture for file sharing, providing location independence,
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scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.
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IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the
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source available for community development and maintenance. They called
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the release OpenAFS.
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