An Introduction to AFS Administration
Esther Filderman, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Garry Zacheiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Who Should Attend: AFS is a distributed filesystem originally
developed at Carnegie Mellon University and later owned by IBM.  It is
now open sourced [as OpenAFS] which makes it available to almost
everyone.  

This tutorial is geared towards the new AFS administrator or people
looking to learn more about the concepts and practical use of AFS.
Previous knowledge of AFS is not required [although having some user
experience with it may help].

Topics will include:
	- an overview of AFS concepts
	- AFS clients & servers
	- AFS from the user point of view
	- Administering AFS
	- Various methods of backups


Garry Zacheiss has spent three years working for MIT Information Systems
doing both development and systems administration. As a member of the
Athena Server Operations team, he works on maintaining and expanding the
AFS cells used by Athena, MIT's Academic Computing Environment, as well
as enhancing Moira, MIT's host and user account management system.

Esther Filderman, a systems administrator for over ten years, is
currently Senior Systems Mangler for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center.  She has been administrating AFS since it's early days as a
research project at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been working
to bring AFS content to Usenix conferences since 1998.