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- From: marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall)
- Subject: Re: What is AFS ???
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:59:47 GMT
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- rrp@cfm.brown.edu (Bob Petrocelli) writes:
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- >I noticed a reference to AFS when FTPing to archive.umich.edu...
- >What is AFS....How do I get it...
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- From /afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac/00introduction
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- AFS (which is also referred to as Andrew File System) connects universities
- and research sites around the world together. The mac.archive files are
- kept on an AFS server, and Unix machines running the client software can
- "cd" (change directory) into the directory holding the archive files
- directly (i.e. bypassing ftp). To the typical user, it's as if mac.archive
- was on your local machine.
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- If you'd like more information on the AFS network and technology and its
- advantages, you can send e-mail to "info@transarc.com" or phone them
- up at 1-412-338-4400.
- ==================
-
- My comments:
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- AFS was developed at CMU and is supported my Transarc. It provides a
- distributed file system with consistent pathnames for any user on any
- machine. Transarc has some good info in the way of technical papers
- and brochures.
-
- Bill
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- Bill Marshall
- Computer Science Department
- Iowa State University
- marshall@cs.iastate.edu
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