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CERN AFS phaseout: status and plans

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descriptionThe paper documenting the retirement of AFS and where its use cases went.
urlhttps://inspirehep.net/literature/1911806
kindpeer-reviewed-paper

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CERN AFS phaseout: status and plans

CHEP paper by Jan Iven and Alberto Pace on the AFS phase-out.

What it anchors

  • The migration was officially restarted in January 2019, aiming to stop the AFS service before LHC Run 3.
  • Where the use cases went: live data to EOS, which already had a filesystem interface, and shared software to CVMFS, already adopted by the LHC experiments for software delivery.
  • CERNBox is described as built on top of EOS as a customised ownCloud service, adding web sharing and asynchronous sync.

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