Welcome Conference Attendees
Thank you for visiting our website! Our team members will be at the conference all week to answer all the questions you may have about deploying a distributed file system for your organization that stores data quickly, securely, and globally to meet your organization's needs. Feel free to ask them any questions, or check out the links below.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
POSTPONED: 2024 AuriStor File System and AFS File System Best Practices Workshop
Oct 15 - 17, 2024
Location: Zoom Events , ,
A virtual gathering of AuriStorFS and AFS users, administrators and developers; novices and experts; and everyone in between.
The Best Practices Workshop has been postponed due to unforeseen events. The dates for rescheduling have yet to be determined.
Who should attend?
EVERYONE interested in deploying a globally accessible file system
EVERYONE who wants to share their knowledge and experience with other members of the AFS, OpenAFS and AuriStorFS communities
EVERYONE who wants to find out the latest developments affecting AFS, Linux kAFS, OpenAFS and AuriStorFS.
EVERYONE who wants to meet the developers and community leaders of their favorite AFS implementations
Please submit Site Reports, Presentations and Birds of a Feather topics up until October 11th via the Call for Participation Form. Sessions will be accepted as space permits.
2023 AFS Technology Workshop
Jun 12 - 14, 2023
Location: Zoom Events , ,
The AFS Technologies Workshop is a conference for users, administrators, and developers interested in learning more about the AFS distributed filesystems and related technologies including AuriStorFS, OpenAFS and Linux native AFS.
Registration $US50
2021 AFS Technologies Workshop
Jun 14 - 16, 2021
Location: , ,
The AFS Technologies Workshop is a conference for users, administrators, and developers interested in learning more about the AFS distributed filesystems and related technologies including AuriStorFS, OpenAFS and Linux native AFS.
AuriStorFS related talks include:
State of kAFS
Monday 14 June 2021, 10:55am EDT (UTC-4)
David Howells, Red Hat
A report on the state of the kAFS Linux in-kernel filesystem and its utilities, what is being worked on and what’s on the to-do list.
AuriStor File System Status Report
Monday 14 June 2021, 11:35 am EDT (UTC-4)
Jeffrey Altman, AuriStor, Inc.
An update on major updates to the AuriStor File System shipped since 2019 plus a road map of deliverables for 2021. The presentation will describe real world milestones achieved by end user sites including 250TB volumes, 5TB files, 500,000 simultaneous RX connections per fileserver, 500,000 volumes per fileserver, ubik services sustaining 40,000 read transactions per second and 22 write transactions per second, hardware accelerated cryptography for Intel and ARM processors, and more. Details on native Linux afs integration, macOS M1 support, Windows 10 Secure Boot, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 certification, and the forthcoming Debian 11 Bullseye release.
Site Report - AFS at the Instituto Superior Técnico
Monday 14 June 2021, 12:30 pm EDT (UTC-4)
Jose M Calhariz, Instituto Superior Técnico
This talk will be about the use of OpenAFS on Técnico, problems found on current OpenAFS and a methodology to test AFS for future use on Técnico.
Juggling Bottlenecks
Monday 14 June 2021, 1:45pm EDT (UTC-4)
Tracy Di Marco White, Goldman Sachs and Simon Wilkinson, AuriStor LTD
Making things faster can have interesting side effects in a complex distributed system and computer science is all about moving bottlenecks. We’ll discuss various changes and unpredictable side effects of those changes, with a few detective stories along the way.
Using AFS with GNOME, systemd, flatpak and security software
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 10:45am EDT (UTC-4)
Jonathan Billings, Aquila Technology
This talk will be about using AFS with modern Linux workstation software, such as the GNOME desktop with systemd, flatpaks, and interfacing with security software such as SELinux and Crowdstrike Falcon sensor. I cover OpenAFS, kAFS and AuriStorFS clients.
AuriStor File System Ubik Services at Scale
Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:15am EDT (UTC-4)
Jeffrey Altman, AuriStor, Inc.
Mike Kazaar’s 1989 IEEE paper “Ubik: Replicated Servers Made Easy” describes the performance goals of Ubik services as supporting one write transaction per second and ten to one hundred read transactions per second on multiple servers (for load sharing and availability purposes.) AuriStor File System cells simultaneously service many tens of thousands of cache managers accessing hundreds of thousands of volumes maintaining many hundreds of thousands of rx connections and hundreds of thousands of user/process and host identities.
Marcio Barbosa’s 2019 talk “Overcoming Ubik Limitations” described some of the technical hurdles to obtaining reliable Ubik performance. This talk will describe the AuriStorFS Ubik implementation that has sustained 40,000 read transactions per second across a quorum of six servers while averaging 22 write transactions per second continuously for more than two days.
The AuriStorFS Ubik service achieves these performance numbers while prioritizing data integrity and correctness. Ubik application services were originally designed around the light-weight process (lwp) model. Safely scaling a Ubik application service requires not only altering the Ubik protocol and library implementation but also rethinking application level caching and data access rules.
No Namespace AFS and Software Deployment
Wednesday 16 June 2021, 11:15am EDT (UTC-4)
Tracy Di Marco White, Goldman Sachs
The trials and tribulations of speeding up software deployment while working to remove the contents of root.cell. Why we wanted to do this, how it was implemented, what we learned, and what speed ups we’ve seen so far.
The full schedule for this virtual conference can be found at https://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw21/schedule/.
Registration for one day or the entire conference at https://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw21/registration/.
USENIX LISA'21 (34th Large Installation System Administration Conference)
Jun 01 - 03, 2021
Location: , ,
LISA21 will take place as a virtual event on June 1–3, 2021. LISA is the premier conference for operations professionals, where sysadmins, systems engineers, IT operations professionals, SRE practitioners, developers, IT managers, and academic researchers share real-world knowledge about designing, building, securing, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
AuriStor is sponsoring USENIX LISA'21. Due to the on-going pandemic LISA'21 will be a virtual event held Tuesday June 1 to Thursday June 3. This year is extra special in that two members of the AuriStorFS community had presentations accepted.
Hands-Off Testing for Networked Filesystems
Thursday, June 03, 2021 - 9:45 am – 10:30 am PDT
Daria Phoebe Brashear, AuriStor, Inc.
Cross-platform network filesystems require testing, but in-kernel interface testing is problematic under the best of circumstances. This talk will discuss the techniques used at AuriStor for automating hands-off testing using buildbot, TAP, docker, and kvm
Leveraging AFS Storage Systems to Ease Global Software Deployment
Thursday, June 03, 2021 - 10:30 am – 11:15 am PDT
Tracy J. Di Marco White, Goldman Sachs
Using AFS as both a file store and an object store, we provide software to hundreds of thousands of client systems within both public and private cloud. As we see a continual increase in the frequency of software deployments, in the number of different software packages, and in the number of versions of each software package, we have also adapted our software deployment systems. Both of our software deployment systems use AFS, but one is unaware of AFS, and one makes specific use of various AFS features. I'll cover how the infrastructure has grown from several private data centers, and how our use of AFS has eased migration to both private and public cloud. I'll discuss the changes we are making to both the AFS-unaware and AFS-aware deployment systems, as well as discuss bugs, bottlenecks, and patterns of software development and usage that we've discovered through the change process.
The full program is available at LISA21 Conference Program | USENIX <https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21/program>
An AuriStor Sponsor Session will be held Thursday, June 03, 2021 - 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT
Registration for the Sponsor Session does not require LISA21 attendance.
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rK3alPfKRnaPDfoX0C6pag
to register.
Big Mountain Data and Dev Conference 2020
Oct 22 - 23, 2020
Location: Online, Powered by LoudSwarm, United States
AuriStor, Inc. is pleased to be a Premium Sponsor of the Big Mountain Data & Dev 2020 Conference.
Gerry Seidman’s talk on Kubernetes Storage will include demonstrations of the AuriStorFS Kubernetes CSI Driver in action including some unique functionality leveraging behind-the-scenes AFS volume management. Tracy Di Marco White, a long-time friend and member of the AFS community, is also giving a talk that we recommend watching
Thursday 5:30PM EST: Understanding Kubernetes Storage: From Zero to Writing a CSI Driver, Gerry Seidman
This talk will demystify the many Kubernetes storage ‘objects’ with their not-always-obvious interactions, life-cycles, and their influence upon the scheduling of Pods across the Kubernetes Nodes in a cluster. This insider’s view of Kubernetes Storage provides valuable insight for developer and devOps people when designing, managing and debugging applications deployed in Kubernetes clusters
Thursday 1:30PM EST: Storage and Software Deployment: Bigger on the Inside, Tracy Di Marco White
Using a globally distributed file system as an object store to deploy software with minimal client disk space usage, minimal network usage, while being nearly invisible to end users, enabling rapid deployment of new software
About: The Big Mountain Data and Dev Conference is Utah’s largest technology agnostic developer event.
Registration: Access to all presentations at The Big Mountain Data and Dev Conference is free, but registration is required. If you plan on attending, please register here.
AuriStor and Teradactyl Training Day
Jun 18 - 18, 2020
Location: Hyatt Place Columbus/OSU Columbus, OH, United States
2020 AFS Technologies Workshop
Jun 15 - 17, 2020
Location: Ohio Union Building/OSU Columbus, OH, United States
Vault '20 USENIX Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference
Feb 24 - 25, 2020
Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA, USA
AuriStor, Inc. is also pleased to sponsor and invite AFS and Linux kernel developers to the third Linux kernel AFS (kAFS) Hackathon and Birds of a Feather meeting. Register here...