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AFS on FreeBSD

On FreeBSD you can accessing AFS using OpenAFS.
  1. Download and OpenAFS for FreeBSD from:
    http://web.mit.edu/freebsd/openafs/
  2. Unpack.
  3. Run pkgadd on the unpacked OpenAFS.

  4. Create your /afs mount point.
  5. Create disk cache in the default location (probably  /usr/vice/cache).
  6. Add:
    AFSD_ENABLE="YES"
    in  /etc/rc.conf
  7. Finally, start AFS on your computer:
     /usr/local/etc/rc.d/afsd start