AFS - Andrews File System
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AFS is a distributed filesystem developed long ago at Carnegia Mellon.
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Support in Sakai
None or Not Applicable depending on who you talk to. 
Here are the perspectives -
the 'Not Applicable' perspective
The core point is that Sakai does not care what the filesystem is. If you configure Sakai to store large binaries on the filesystem it will be happy to do so. The location you configure should be considered to be 'owned' by Sakai. Sakai will not manage that storage in any easily human readable form. Abandon all hope etc.
If you choose to use AFS you are welcome to do so. Be sure to have your sysadmins (bless them) do all the proper AFS token management for long lived processes and you should be golden. This will allow a pool of Sakai servers to have a common disk space. You might want this.
the 'None' perspective
If you are expecting Sakai to know anything about AFS security, PTS groups, or your institution's custom class-collaboration disk spaces you are on your own.
Institutions interested in integrating AFS with Sakai:
- Stanford University, Academic Computing will implement a lightweight integration with the existing AFS Course infrastructure. The effort will focus on provisioning AFS & PTS groups from Sakai.
See Also:
The newsgroup archives have a series of exciting threads where these two perspectives were talking across each other before someone painted a broader picture.