AFS Storage

What is it good for?

AFS is good for storing important files - ITCS backs this up to tape. In that perspective, AFS is more secure than any of the CAC filesystems.

What is it bad for?

AFS isn't available on the compute nodes because your Kerberos token doesn't get passed with your job information, so it is not good for running compute jobs.

How is it used?

On the nyx login nodes you can access your AFS space by typing:

     [login@nyx-login1 ~]$ kinit
Password for login@UMICH.EDU:  your password
[login@nyx-login1 ~]$ aklog
[login@nyx-login1 ~]$ cd /afs/umich.edu/user/1/2/login

Where login is your login ID, 1 is the first letter of your login ID, and 2 is the second letter of your login ID. So if your login ID is acaird the path to your AFS space is /afs/umich.edu/u/a/c/acaird.

Details

For more information, please see ITCS's web pages.