= What is AFS? =
The '''Andrew File System''' or '''AFS''', is a distributed network file system invented at [http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml Carnegie Mellon University] as part of Project Andrew (approximately their equivalent of MIT's Project Athena). More importantly, it is the file system used to store most files on Athena today. This includes your personal home directory, your dorm site, and probably some of the software you run, if you ever use clusters. (Though all user directories were migrated from NFS in the summer of 1992, some files probably still remain on NFS and, of course, various file systems are used on personal computers and servers).
= What is AFS? =
The '''Andrew File System''' or '''AFS''', is a distributed network file system invented at [http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml Carnegie Mellon University] as part of Project Andrew (approximately their equivalent of MIT's Project Athena). More importantly, it is the file system used to store most files on Athena today. This includes your personal home directory, your dorm site, and probably some of the software you run, if you ever use clusters. (Though all user directories were migrated from NFS in the summer of 1992, some files probably still remain on NFS and, of course, various file systems are used on personal computers and servers).