Schedule: OpenAFS: cross-platform enterprise class distributed filesystem
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Simon Wilkinson |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Saturday |
| Room | Ferrer |
| Start time | 18:20 |
| End time | 18:35 |
| Duration | 00:15 |
| Info | |
| Event type | Lightning-Talk |
| Track | Lightning Talks |
| Language | English |
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| Slides (PDF) | |
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This talk will present a developers view of OpenAFS. It will briefly detail why OpenAFS is still a compelling filesystem for today's enterprise users, examine the challenges of maintaining an old code base across a wide range of operating systems, and discuss the opportunities that this stable base presents for future development work. In particular we'll look at my ongoing work to reintroduce disconnected operation.
OpenAFS is a cross-platform enterprise class distributed filesystem. AFS started life at Carnegie Mellon University and was then marketed as a commercial product by Transarc, and later by IBM. In 2000 IBM open-sourced the codebase, creating the OpenAFS project. OpenAFS continues to maintain and enhance this code, producing file system modules for Linux, AIX, HPUX, Irix, Solaris and Mac OS X from a common source tree. Microsoft Windows support is also provided.