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IBM Open Sourcing AFS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the opening-it-to-the-world dept.

Erik from IBM wrote to us to confirm that IBM will be a "open sourcing" AFS. What's actually going is that they are forking the code, as not all of the code can be opened for "technical or licensing reason". So, there will be IBM AFS, which they will support, and Open AFS which will be the open code. The license is going to the be the IBM Public License which is an OSI approved license. Overall good news for a very scalable, secure file system.

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  1. This will be good news, if they do it by Hairy_Potter · · Score: 5

    The IBM link is non-existent, it must have been retracted. I found this faq that explains AFS.

    But when Linux incorporates this, it will be a lot easier to cluster servers, and share files. And maybe we can kiss of NFS forever.