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 file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data. 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. To build the kernel module $ cd src/libafs $ cp MakefileProto.NBSD Makefile $ make obj && make && make install For instructions how to create a cell: http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/FedoraAFSInstall/