About OpenAFS
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University
and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM
Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file
sharing and replicated read-only content distribution, providing location
independence, scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS
is available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux,
MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows.
IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source
available for community development and maintenance. They called the release
OpenAFS.