OpenAFS: Ten Years of Open Source Storage Systems

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Jeffrey Altman

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Abstract

OpenAFS was founded on 1 Nov 2000 after the release by IBM of its AFS enterprise storage product as open source. This talk will summarize ten years of the product's open source development by more than 230 developers and describe where the next ten years might take it.

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What makes an open source project successful?
Why is AFS still used given the resources devoted to CIFS, NFS, NFSv4, Lustre, and other network storage technologies?
What types of organizations depend on AFS?