User:Tiicoo:AFSKRB/Overview

In order to manage distributed filesystems we have to handle accounting, authorization and authentication. As already mentioned in the introduction we will use Kerberos for most things.

AFS was designed for Cross-Subnetworking. Therefore you can not use broadcasting in order to discover other participants in your network. Hence AFS uses
 * Cells
 * Sites
 * Volumes

Why is OpenAFS a distributed filesystem?
In this chapter we will have a look at the differences between OpenAFS and conventional file systems focused on local storage management. If you think in terms of inodes, blocks and virtual blocks or directory entries you have to find equivalences in the context of distributed systems. Let us have a look at the structure of OpenAFS