NYC local event: Unigroup 21-Nov-2019 meeting: Linux Kernel AFS on Fedora 31

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2019 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: Linux Kernel AFS (Distributed Filesystem) on Fedora 31
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Speaker: Jeffrey E. Altman, Founder and CEO,
AuriStor <http://www.auristor.com>

When: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: LL210 (** New Building: Sub-basement Lower Level **)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's November 2019 meeting will discuss AFS - The Andrew
File System, a distributed filesystem which now has some
built-in out-of-the-box support in Fedora 31. AFS was developed
back in the 1980s, and the open source OpenAFS project was formed
back in year 2000. AFS has been available for a broad range of
heterogeneous systems including: UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and
Microsoft Windows.

Our speaker, Jeff Altman, had last presented AFS-related topics
to Unigroup back in 2011 (and 2005 before that), and his other
Unigroup talks included: MIT Kerberos 5 (2004) and Security
Protocols and Technologies (2001).

Unigroup has a couple handfuls of speakers lined up for our
upcoming meetings, and we are working on locking down
topics/speakers to meeting dates (see the updated Upcoming
Meetings section below).

Unigroup's Meeting Calendar:
21-NOV-2019: Linux Kernel AFS (Distributed Filesystem) on Fedora 31
16-JAN-2020: To-be-announced.
20-FEB-2020: To-be-announced??
19-MAR-2020: To-be-announced.

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: Linux Kernel AFS (Distributed Filesystem) on Fedora 31.

Related Topics/Keywords
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AFS, Andrew File System, AFS3, OpenAFS, AuriStor File System,
Global File Namespace, Wide Area Distributed File System,
Linux Kernel, AF_RXRPC, kAFS, Fedora Linux,
Cloud Era File System, Containers, Linux Namespaces,
Federated Authentication, Combined Identity Authentication,
Constrained Elevation Multi-factor Authorization,
GSS-API, Kerberos, Linux Keyrings.

Introduction & Description of Talk
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This meeting will be exploring some old technologies, some new
implementations and the reasons why the ACM's 2016 Software
System Award went to the developers of the Andrew File System
(AFS). Thirty four years after the /afs file namespace went
into production, Fedora 31 became the first Linux distribution
to ship a complete Linux kernel AFS client solution. Unlike
the monolithic AFS clients that originated with IBM AFS, Linux
kafs is a modular Linux specific AFS and AuriStorFS client.
Many of the components developed for kafs have become core
Linux technologies including Keyrings, FS-Cache, and keyutils.
With built-in support for Linux namespaces kafs provides one of
the best solutions to address secure persistent storage for
Linux Containers and implementation of portable overflow
compute models.

Presentation Outline
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- Intro of AFS family filesystems - AFS3, DCE DFS and AuriStorFS
- The first object store backed filesystems
- The first cloud era filesystems
- The first federated filesystems
- The first global namespace filesystems

- Core architectural differences between AuriStorFS / AFS3 and
NFS and CIFS?
- Object store backed filesystems vs exported local filesystems

- OpenAFS and Linux - why is Linux Kernel AFS necessary?
- Isn't being open source good enough?

- Fedora Core 31 out of the box demo

- RX RPC - Secure multi-service remote procedure calls for everyone
- RX RPC is not just for AFS3 - anyone can use it
- RX connection security - end-to-end wire privacy without
man-in-the-middle attacks

- AuriStorFS, GSS-API, Kerberos, RX RPC and Linux Keyrings
- Shared History
- AuriStorFS Security model
- Combined identity authentication
- Multi-factor constrained elevation authorization
- Explicit vs Implicit Access Control

- Open Topics

References & Web Resources:
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OpenAFS Foundation and OpenAFS Releases/Downloads:
https://www.openafs.org

kAFS Project and AF_RXRPC (Linux Kernel Filesystem to access AFS Servers):
https://www.infradead.org/~dhowells/kafs/

Building Fedora kafs kernels and kafs-related tools:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jsbillings/kafs/

KAFS client Packaging and Linux /afs:
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/888

filesystem- Basic directory layout for a Linux system:
https://pagure.io/filesystem

NetworkWorld on AFS:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3195838/you-really-should-know-what-the-andrew-file-system-is.html

Fedora Linux Project:
https://www.getfedora.org

ACM Technical Award for AFS:
http://awards.acm.org/about/2016-technical-awards

AuriStor Filesystem Comparison (AuriStor, Lustre, NFSv4, OpenAFS):
https://www.auristor.com/filesystem/auristor-comparison

AuriStor Commercial Filesystem:
https://www.auristor.com/openafs/migrate-to-auristor/

AuriStor Filesystem Tech-Specs:
https://www.auristor.com/filesystem/tech-specs

AuriStor Home Page:
https://www.auristor.com

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Speaker Biography
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Jeffrey Eric Altman, Founder and CEO, AuriStor

Jeffrey has developed data communications, distributed file system
and network security solutions for more than thirty years. His
experience with secure data communications extends from two-pair
circuits to interplanetary transmissions.

Jeffrey founded AuriStor, Inc. in 2007 to extend the AFS concepts
of WAN file system namespaces, security first network protocols,
and access control to all 21st centry applications and end users.
Today, AuriStor is setting a new standard for secure high
performance globally accessible general purpose file systems.

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Company Biography
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AuriStor, Inc. produces secure, scalable cloud storage solutions
that reduce the cost of managing the ever increasing unstructured
storage needs of global enterprises, small & midsize businesses and
eventually, individuals. AuriStor envisions a world in which all
users experience the benefits of a universal globally accessible
file namespace that provides all of the capabilities and performance
of local disk file systems. In this world, operating systems,
applications, and user data are executed locally for performance but
are logically managed in the network simplifying hardware
replacement, reducing risk of data-loss, improving accessibility,
providing new opportunities for collaboration, application
development and business models.

The AuriStor principals have worked together for over twenty years
on Internet-based network file system and security technologies.
These collaborations have led to the delivery of successful storage
and security solutions to multiple industries, including finance,
high performance computing, government research, and computer
industry leaders including Apple and Microsoft.

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Small Business Innovation
Research grants in 2008 and 2009 to develop the AuriStor File
System. Revenues are generated from software licensing and support
contracts in multiple markets such as research organizations,
academia and high finance.

AuriStor team members utilize our technology to successful
collaborate from multiple locations. Headquartered in New York City,
AuriStor team members reside in New York City, Cambridge MA,
Edinburgh Scotland UK and Nova Scotia Canada.

For further information, visit the AuriStor Web Site:
http://www.auristor.com

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
restock.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

We expect to have Pizza, soft drinks, and cookies/brownies
at this meeting.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!

Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) To-be-announced

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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2020??: Linux on ARM
- 2020??: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
- 2020??: The Latest C++ Standards, Part 2, C++20.
- 2020??: Multi-Path Redundant Networking/Routing/Switching
- 2020??: IBM AIX Tuning and AIX Update
- 2020??: AI+ML using Open Source Tools
- Planning: New CPU Architectures, x86 and ARM.
- Planning: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
- Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on AIX
- Planning: Security Threats & Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
11/21/2019, 01/16/2020, 02/20??/2020, 03/19/2020, 05/21/2020, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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