# OpenAFS

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 federated file sharing and replicated read-only content distribution, providing location independence, scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows.

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.

This page describes only the client side.

## Client installation

Install openafs client with the openafsAUR and openafs-modulesAUR packages.

Edit `/etc/openafs/ThisCell` and put default cell there. You can check for the cells in `/etc/openafs/CellServDB`.

Start the `openafs-client` service.

## Troubleshooting

### aklog: a pioctl failed while obtaining tokens for cell ...

Your afs client is probably not running. Start it as described in #Client installation.

## See also

- Official site https://www.openafs.org/

Categories:

- File systems
- Networking