About the History of AFS Family File Systems category

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 founded in 1989
  • AFS v3.1 in 1991
  • AFS v3.2 in 1992
  • AFS v3.3 in 1994
  • AFS v3.4 in 1995
  • Arla development began 1998
  • AFS v3.5 in 1999
  • AFS v3.6 in 2000
  • IBM OpenAFS 1.0 released on 31 Oct 2000
  • Linux kafs development began in 2002
    *AuriStor (formerly Your File System) founded in 2007

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