Mount point挂载点, Andrew File System

A mount point is a directory in a file system where additional information is logically connected  from a storage location outside the operating system’s root drive and partition.

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关于Linux的分区及Mount point
http://blog.csdn.net/lijiastone/article/details/6883081

Unix fundamentals - mount points
http://fosswire.com/post/2007/04/unix-fundamentals-mount-points/


Andrew file system (AFS) definition
An Andrew file system (AFS) is a location-independent file system that uses a local cache to reduce the workload and increase the performance of a distributed computing environment. A first request for data to a server from a workstation is satisfied by the server and placed in a local cache. A second request for the same data is satisfied from the local cache.
The Andrew file system was developed at Carnegie-Mellon University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System


http://www.openafs.org/
What is AFS?
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated read-only content distribution, providing location independence, scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux,  MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows

IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.