-AFS (previously the Andrew File System or ) is a distributed network file system invented at 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, the data and websites of many living groups and student groups on campus, and probably some of the software you run (if you ever use Athena clusters). (Though most user directories were migrated from NFS in the summer of 1992, some files still remain on NFS and, of course, various file systems are used on personal computers and servers.) +AFS (previously the Andrew File System or ) is a distributed network file system invented at 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, the data and websites of many living groups and student groups on campus, and probably some of the software you run (if you ever use Athena clusters). (Though most user directories were migrated from NFS in the summer of 1992, some files still remain on NFS and, of course, various file systems are used on personal computers and servers.)
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ By default, this directory can only be read and can only be listed by you This folder is a link to a read-only copy of a backup of your files (created nightly around 3 a.m.). This copy cannot be edited and does not count against the locker's quota. From a technical standpoint, this is a separate volume with .backup appended (e.g. user.<username>.backup ) and is stored only as changes against the current copy.
-Generally any locker that you would access on Athena as /mit/<locker> is accessible on the web as http://web.mit.edu/<locker>. For example, the barnowl locker is at http://web.mit.edu/barnowl. As you can see, if there is no index.html (see below), the files in the directory are listed. By default, however, none of the contents are readable except in the www and Public folders. +Generally any locker that you would access on Athena as /mit/<locker> is accessible on the web as https://web.mit.edu/<locker>. For example, the barnowl locker is at https://web.mit.edu/barnowl. As you can see, if there is no index.html (see below), the files in the directory are listed. By default, however, none of the contents are readable except in the www and Public folders.
-Also, you may access something in one of the MIT AFS cells by typing its full AFS path after web.mit.edu (http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/c/chess-club). (That link also shows that if you have a text file named README readable, as a link to Public/README for example, its contents will be displayed below the directory listing). +Also, you may access something in one of the MIT AFS cells by typing its full AFS path after web.mit.edu (https://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/c/chess-club). (That link also shows that if you have a text file named README readable, as a link to Public/README for example, its contents will be displayed below the directory listing). -Note that when accessed from web.mit.edu (or www.mit.edu), only static files may be shown. If you are interested in serving dynamic content (such as a blog or wiki using PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.), you should check out SIPB's Scripts dynamic web service. See http://scripts.mit.edu for more information. +Note that when accessed from web.mit.edu (or www.mit.edu), only static files may be shown. If you are interested in serving dynamic content (such as a blog or wiki using PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.), you should check out SIPB's Scripts dynamic web service. See https://scripts.mit.edu for more information.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ Thereafter, the users should be able to get to the folders at https:/
-see also: http://ist.mit.edu/services/web/reference/web-resources/https +see also: https://ist.mit.edu/services/web/reference/web-resources/https
<html> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://web.mit.edu/<lockername>/www"> + <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=https://web.mit.edu/<lockername>/www"> </head> <body> - <p>Please go to my <a href="http://web.mit.edu/<lockername>/www">www</a>!</p> + <p>Please go to my <a href="https://web.mit.edu/<lockername>/www">www</a>!</p> </body> </html> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Most AFS servers restart weekly at 6 AM on Sunday.It isn't Sunday and I can't get to my files
-There may be a non-scheduled AFS outage. Check 3down, hopefully it will be back up soon :-(. You can check up on the AFS servers by running fs checkservers (or fs checks). If there is no reported outage and you can't access the AFS servers (but can access the rest of the net), contact OLC. +There may be a non-scheduled AFS outage. Check 3down, hopefully it will be back up soon :-(. You can check up on the AFS servers by running fs checkservers (or fs checks). If there is no reported outage and you can't access the AFS servers (but can access the rest of the net), contact OLC.
Advanced Tasks
Putting Software in a Locker
@@ -341,6 +341,6 @@ user.sipbtest 537058147 RW 69785 K On-lineSee Also
-SIPB's older guide, Inessential AFS
OpenAFS documentation at http://www.openafs.org/ +SIPB's older guide, Inessential AFS
OpenAFS documentation at https://www.openafs.org/