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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 Corporation
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(now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file
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sharing, providing location independence, scalability, security, and
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transparent migration capabilities for data.
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2006-02-06 12:39:24 +00:00
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2008-07-21 03:13:01 +00:00
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IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source
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available for community development and maintenance. They called the
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release OpenAFS.
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