We have a small collection of documentation about AFS and its uses at Stanford, aimed at expert users and campus sysadmins. This documentation aims to give practical information about working with AFS, including answers to common questions and problems, while providing some of the background concepts behind the file system.
User Documentation
- Tokens: Your Identity to the File System
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Since AFS is a networked file system, you must establish your identity not only on your local machine, but also to all the machines in the AFS cell.
- File Permissions and AFS ACLs
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One of the biggest differences between Unix and AFS file space is the way file permissions are handled.
- Your Volume: The Home for your Home Directory
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Information about your user volume, as well as a description of what an AFS volume is.
- Quota: How Much? How to tell?
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Your user volume has a limited quota associated with it. Information about how much this quota is, and how to tell how much of it you've used in any volume.
- Backup Images: Recovering Your Own Files
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Almost all AFS volumes have a backup image from the night before available. Here's how to find it and use it.
Advanced Topics
- Serving Web Pages from AFS
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Getting your webserver to serve content out of AFS requires some specialized knowledge about how AFS works if your content is not world visible.
- Automated Authentication to AFS
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How to run other applications besides web servers with authenticated access to AFS. Includes how to request a srvtab and how to use the srvtab to authenticate a particular application to AFS once you have one.
