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AFS is a distributed network filesystem originially developed as part of the AndrewProject at CarnegieMellonUniversity in the mid 1980's.  It provides a number of useful features over traditional network filesystems, including:
	* AccessControlLists
	* UserManagedGroups
	* KerberosAuthentication
	* TransparentVolumeMoves
	* VolumeReplication

Today there are three major implementations of the <nop>AFS3 protocol:
	* [[IBM/AFS]]
	* OpenAFS
	* ArlaAFS

Elsewhere on this site are a guide to GettingStarted with AFS, some AncientHistory, and a variety of AFS3 ProtocolInfo.

-- Main.JeffreyHutzelman - 18 Jan 2002
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