Using OpenAFS effectively

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Introduction

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Contract sections
1.AFS in a nutshell
2.AFS from a user perspective
3.AFS utility programs
4.Filesystem differences
  I/O intensive jobs
  Permission bits
  Special files
5.AFS authentication
  AFS tokens
  Discarding tokens
  AFS home directories
  Long running jobs
  Changing passwords
6.Volumes
7.Scratch Volumes
8.Filesystem layout
  Special pathnames
9.Access control
10.Managing ACLs
  Negative ACLs
11.Group Access controls
12.Backup snapshots
13.Performance Tuning
 Distributed fileservers
 Replicated Volumes
 Large vs Small Volumes
  Smaller volumes: pro
  Smaller volumes: con
 Client cache options
14.Installing AFS clients
 Traditional Unix platforms
 Linux
 Mac OS-X
 Microsoft Windows
15.Mobile clients
16.MacOSX clients
17.Selected AFS documentation
18.Local AFS commands
19.References
  Books
  Online Resources
  Academic site AFS information
  Related Software