At Stanford, Leland Systems uses AFS to provide and maintain a campus-wide distributed filesystem -- the ir.stanford.edu AFS cell. This cell currently consists of twenty AFS servers, geographically distributed across campus, and one Terabyte of available diskspace, which is backed up nightly.

Leland Systems uses this AFS cell to provide home directories for all Leland Accounts, many Stanford classes, and many Stanford University departments and campus organizations. Our AFS cell is also the home for our /usr/pubsw campus software service, which allows AFS client machines (for a variety of supported architectures) to access and use software compiled and maintained by Leland Systems personnel.

Over a thousand machines on the Stanford campus run AFS client software, giving their users local access to their Leland Account home directory, all the software available in /usr/pubsw, and hundreds of other AFS cells worldwide.