# A History of the Andrew File System

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2010-2011
- Taught by: Derrick Brashear, Jeffrey Altman
- Year: 2011
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3010708)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Derrick Brashear and Jeffrey Altman will present a technical history of the evolution of Andrew File System starting with the early days of the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon through the commercialization by Transarc Corporation and IBM and a decade of OpenAFS. The talk will be technical with a focus on the various decisions and implementation trade-offs that were made over the course of AFS versions 1 through 4, the development of the Distributed Computing Environment Distributed File System (DCE DFS), and the course of the OpenAFS development community. The speakers will also discuss the various AFS branches developed at the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University..

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## Lectures

1. [A History of the Andrew File System](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3010708/03fe02f40c67), 59 min (CERN's player)