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.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· For all systems, minor bugs were fixed, including Rx fixes and vos dryrun improvements.
· RXAFS_GetStatistics64 now returns statistics properly.
· For all Unix platforms, the cacheout program is now built, and a potential panic in bulkstatus is avoided. On FreeBSD, shutdown of the Rx kernel listener was fixed to avoid a potential dereference after it's gone.
· On Linux, the packaging was updated for the current configure options and built files.
· On MacOS, the DNS resolver is reinitialized on IP address change.
· On Windows, the software properly fails over to other replicas on bulkstat IO errors, and directory entry buffers are validated to avoid crashing the service.