# History of AFS Family File Systems

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## [About the History of AFS Family File Systems category](https://forum.auristor.com/t/about-the-history-of-afs-family-file-systems-category/50)

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The history of AFS-family file systems began in 1981 at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the IBM funded “Andrew Project”. AFS v1 was deployed in 1984 AFS v2 in 1985 Coda forked in 1986 AFS v3 in 1987 Transarc foun…