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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 in 2000. They called the release OpenAFS. Over the last eight years of our existence OpenAFS has been adopted by hundreds of organizations. From a development perspective the open source community has added more than 200,000 lines of code since the IBM contribution of 447,000 lines and replaced much of the code that was originally received.
