Patent ID: 8577940
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a computer file system, the method comprising: on a remote computing system, creating a Virtual Execution Environment (VEE) file template for a plurality of VEEs having a VEE file system located on a local computing system; establishing, on the local computing system, a shared template file system tree that is concurrently accessible by the VEEs; on a local computing system, instantiating the plurality of VEEs that use the VEE file template, each VEE virtualizing a host operating system of the local computing system and the VEEs sharing services of the host operating system, and each VEE being isolated from other VEEs on a namespace level; transmitting the VEE file template from the remote computing system to the shared template file system tree; and providing access from the VEE to the file template in the shared template file system tree, wherein the shared template file system tree comprises stub files that reference files on the network storage.