[scolson]

Not the commenter, but guessing AFS = andrew file system.

This has been used for decades by a lot of the universities who were original internet consumers (MIT, Univ of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, etc). In fact, it is still used by a lot of these universities and research institutions for data sharing and distributed computing, afaik.

[microtonal]

Our department is still using it, but it is crumbling. E.g. the macOS clients are outdated. Even when there were still updates, they would come months after a new OS X release.

(It must be a lot of work for the AFS maintainers to keep everything up to date.)