System and sooner or later file transfer protocol (FTP) wouldīecome obsolete. The future AFS would be expanded to a global distributed file Introduced at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) and the last name This file system is named the Andrews File System because it was Where your file is, invoke the following command: Stored in different volumes on AFS file server machines and accessed One set of login name and password, and therefore the user has an illusion that Although in your organization there may be differentįile servers, with AFS all the files can be accessed by

The good news is: AFS is a universal file system. For example, files stored in Windows NT's NTFS partition cannot be read by Windows 98, which uses FAT32, and vice versa. This is the spirit of America! The bad news is: Different file systems store files differently.

How come there are three file systems in Windows computers and two in Macs?' Welcome to the world of diversity. Some people may scream, 'What! I thought all PCs are the same and so are all Macs. Common file systems are:ģ2-bit File Allocation System (FAT32) (gain weight?)

A file system is for an operating system to organize and keep track of files. Before I explain AFS, first you should learn what a file system is. The Andrews File System (AFS) is a distributed file system What is AFS Land? What is AFS Land? by Dr.