OpenAFS A client-server distributed filesystem.
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OpenAFS Description

A client-server distributed filesystem. 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 file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.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. What's New in This Release: · This is the recommended production-ready release for Microsoft Windows users. Other platforms should use 1.4.11. · This release has official support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. · It prevents a file server bug from causing an "unexpected network error" when writing to files. · It promotes DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. · It fixes the SMB redirector disconnecting sometimes. · All UNIX clients support SRV records for discovering AFS servers. · A race/crash in volserver has been fixed. Mac OS X has Preferences Pane improvements. · Core file handling works correctly on HP-UX.

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