Since AFS uses the Kerberos system for authentication, you really want to build Arla with Kerberos support. But you should be able to build Arla without Kerberos, just losing some functionality in the process. We are using Arla with the KTH-krb Kerberos implementation, and we do recommend it. The same is true for other packages of other operating systems. There's not much documentation about Arla at the moment.
Some documentation is included in the distribution.
A brief Arla FAQ . AFS's programmers manual AFS overview AFS Faq A Usenix Freenix track paper , Usenix technical conference 1998 that Johan Danielsson and Assar Westerlund presented. There was also some slides . A conference called Made2000 - Management and Administration of Distributed Environments, in Gothenburg, Sweden 2000 we presented a paper about porting Arla to Windows. There was also some slides .