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.
What’s New in 1.5.27 Development Release:
· A fileserver locking issue that applies to all platforms has been fixed.
What’s New in 1.4.6 Stable Release:
· The fileserver host tracking code had a missing lock on a host structure; that lock has been added.
· Fileserver handling for clients that are giving up callbacks did not hold a lock, making it unsafe and allowing clients to potentially crash the server by racing.
· The fileserver now leaves a core file when it is doing a shutdown due to error conditions.
· The fileserver again allows UFS as a valid filesystem type (regression in 1.4.5).
· The cbd handler for fileserver status data had an interpretation error that could cause crashes.
· The fileserver accurately tracks the number of callbacks on a given file.
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