This page is intended to be a starting-point for users wishing to find out more about AFS, what it is, and how to use it. It contains pointers to other information sources (both local and elsewhere) which should help you to gain familiarity with AFS, its strengths, and its idiosyncracies.

For the impatient, there's the AFS "top ten" questions.

Resources available are:

• Documentation for Users and Computing Staff , including a "Getting Started" section.
• A Comparison between AFS and NFSv4.
• The on-line documentation from OpenAFS, especially the User's Guide .
  Note that this material is currently under revision, and the versions available here are the original IBM documentation - which will be out of date in some areas (although still useful).
• The updated, local copy of the OpenAFS reference manual .
• The January '06 Newletter containing the 'Why We Chose AFS' article.
• Setting up AFS under MacOSX