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Arla is a free AFS implementation
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The arla project.  Platforms used in production systems FreeBSD NetBSD Linux Mac OS X See below for version details. Documentation Arla documentation ArlaFAQ AFS wiki AFSFAQ Mailing lists archives arla-drinkers arla-announce arla-commit Other Contributions [Projectgoals Supportedplatforms Project status Distribution Documentation Mailinglists CVS Links]...
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/

xFS
Serverless Network File Service
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xFS  A simpler version of this page that shows up better on non-Netscape viewers. The real page. Current distributed file systems are designed around a centralized server model. This model provides easy sharing of data for a network of computers. However,...
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Xfs/xfs.html

An offshoot of AFS, CODA, and Ext2.
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Lustre: scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system  The central goal is the development of a next-generation cluster file system which can serve clusters with 10,000's of nodes, petabytes of storage, move 100's of GB/sec with state of the art security and management infrastructure. Lustre runs today on...
http://www.lustre.org/

CMU's advanced networked File System
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Coda File System  Manuals and documentation Mailinglists only Research Papers (www.cs.cmu.edu) What is Coda? Coda is an advanced networked filesystem. It has been developed at CMU since 1987 by the systems group of M. Satyanarayanan. in the SCS department. Why is Coda promising...
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/

FHS
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard  This page is the home of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS The current version is 2.3. It was announced on January 29, 2004. The filesystem standard has been designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system...
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Andrew File System II
http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu

DFS
Distributed File System
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Distributed File Systems Part I  Distributed File Systems Part I 11/30/98 Click here to start Table of Contents Distributed File Systems Part I Issues in Centralized File Systems B*-Tree Files Issues in Centralized File Systems Directories Directories Directories Issues in Centralized File Systems Contiguous Allocation of File...
http://cs.gmu.edu/~menasce/osbook/distfs/

Describes a wide variety of filesystems and instructs you on how to access them from a wide variety of operating systems.
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Filesystems HOWTO  If you want to take over this project and maintain it yourself, feel free to contact me (but first read this page You can browse the current version online. Click here for HTML or text version. Japanese translation of this...
http://www.penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/

AFS
Andrew File System
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AFS Reference Page  The authors of this page have not examined many of the tools and resources listed here, and do not make any guarantees as to their usefulness. If you discover that a link is out of date, or would like to...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr/shadow/www/afs.html

A simple filesystem for loading Unix operating systems.
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The BFS filesystem structure  It contains all files necessary for UnixWare boot procedures (such as unix Because the object of the bfs filesystem type is to allow quick and simple booting, BFS was designed as a contiguous flat filesystem. It is not intended to...
http://penguin.cz/~mhi/fs/bfs/bfs-structure.html

Information on migrating from the Ext2 to Ext3 file system.
http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/

SFS
A networked file system which provides security over untrusted networks.
http://www.fs.net/

A single-file virtual file system for Delphi (VCL), .NET, Windows, Linux, PalmOS, PocketPC.
http://www.solfs.com/

A stackable vnode level encryption File System
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Cryptfs: A Stackable Vnode Level Encryption File System  Data encryption has become an increasingly important factor in everyday work. Users seek a method of securing their data with maximum comfort and minimum additional requirements on their part; they want a security system that protects any files used by...
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html