About:
AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.

Author:
OpenAFS Developers <openafs __dash__ devel __at__ openafs __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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8.44/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.openafs.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.7.html
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.7.html
Changelog:
http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.7/ChangeLog
OS X package:
http://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.4.7.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://www.openafs.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/openafs/
Bug tracker:
http://www.central.org/rt/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Win32 (MS Windows)
[License]		OSI Approved :: IBM Public License
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX :: AIX, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: IRIX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications :: File Sharing, System :: Filesystems

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.4.7	03-May-2008	IBM Public License
Development Potentially unstable new features.	1.5.50	17-Jul-2008	IBM Public License

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  Sun, Jan 13th 2008 01:02
  
• Debian: New openafs packages fix remote privilege escalation bug
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  Wed, Mar 21st 2007 03:49
  
• Debian: New OpenAFS packages fix integer overflow bug
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  Mon, Aug 5th 2002 07:07
  

 Comments

[»] openAFS documentation
by cigalator - May 30th 2002 22:22:50

I've been studiing open AFS during a period of time and at last I have left it due to the bad documentation. There are several errors in the documentation. Beside of this issue the documentation referrs to the CD-ROM, but most part of the people will download the RPMs from the web page. There is no support for these people. The RPMs do some of the work specified in the installation guide but you just have to guess what is already done. The mailing list is also a bit caothic.

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[»] Re: openAFS documentation
by Chris Snyder - Jul 30th 2002 01:53:08


> I've been studiing open AFS during a
> period of time and at last I have left
> it due to the bad documentation. There
> are several errors in the documentation.
> Beside of this issue the documentation
> referrs to the CD-ROM, but most part of
> the people will download the RPMs from
> the web page. There is no support for
> these people. The RPMs do some of the
> work specified in the installation guide
> but you just have to guess what is
> already done.
>
> The mailing list is also a bit caothic.
In my experience, the documentation was quite good - yes, it did assume you were installing from scratch using a CD, but that just means that you have to actually think, instead of just following instructions. Also, I had to make use of the mailing list once - I got a response back within an hour that solved my problem.


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Chris Snyder Systems Administrator MVP Software http://www.mvpsoft.com

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[»] Re: openAFS documentation
by wingman - Dec 22nd 2004 02:18:29

I have recently dived into OpenAFS and found the documentation to be amazing. This is a very high quality IBM documentation. You're right, the CD stuff is not up to date, but this is a complexe peace of software, and avoiding the documentation of such software is simply impossible. It aims complexe and heavy environement and therefor cannot be reasonably used with just a RPM. If you have already installed AFS environements in the pas you'll find the documentation to be actually easy to use. I've never done AFS installation before and yet, after two weeks, I had a very nice 12 servers using heavily AFS. Even today, and since AFS is complexe (not OpenAFS, AFS in general), I sometimes read some pieces of this huge 1000+ pages which, again, I consider to be a high quality documentation. there is no doubt for me it is much more important for OpenAFS, today (12/2004), to make OpenAFS better, rather than update here and there to wrong folders or CD stuff indicated in the documentation. I think there are less than ten opensource documentation like this in the world and the IBM fingerprint is clearly there. Make a small effort and you''ll see the only problem is that you have to follow, read, and understand the first server installation, as indicated in the documentation.

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