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Start with AFS

Understand what a task can name, access and operate.

Begin here if AFS is new to you. Five questions introduce resources, addresses, providers, operations and a task’s working scope. Afterwards, you should be able to explain how a resource is found and used.

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  1. What does AFS organize?

    AFS gives a task a named, inspectable view of the resources it can work with.

  2. What does a path give an agent?

    A path identifies a resource within a namespace, so operations can refer to it explicitly.

  3. How does a service enter AFS?

    A provider implements resource operations; a mount places that provider in a namespace.

  4. Why do operation semantics matter?

    Naming a resource is useful only when consumers can understand what operations on it mean.

  5. Does shared context mean everyone sees everything?

    A Small World presents the resources relevant to one observer, rather than exposing the whole system.