OpenAFS A Distributed Filesystem

A dying hard disk lead me to OpenAFS. While researching file system and windows I found 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.

OpenAFS Website

http://www.openafs.org/

RPM

http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.8/rhel-5.2/i386/

http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/openafs/

Docs

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-openafs/

http://spoilt.blogsite.org/wordpress/index.php/2008/07/16/how-to-install-openafs-on-fedora-9