AFS has been used by the faculty, staff, departments and students who have purchased pay accounts on Computer Center UNIX systems. Pilot has used AFS for two years as its authentication mechanism. Pilot IDs are AFS IDs. In the conversion started in January 1996, Pilot user data is being moved from Internal Pilot disks into AFS space to allow Pilot space to be used across campus from microlabs, homes, offices, and dorm rooms. Access Control Lists -AFS allows great flexibility in who can read and write data.
Data follow the operator to any workstation.
AFS detects your location and moves your data to a server to be as close as possible. This reduces the load on the campus-wide network backbone.