A system comprising: control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is operable to maintain statistics regarding file system requests sent by one or more client devices of a plurality of client devices to one or more IP addresses of a set of IP addresses, wherein each IP address of the set of IP addresses is an address of one of a plurality of computing devices and each one of the plurality of client devices is allocated a respective subset of the set of IP addresses to be used as a destination address for one or more file system requests, and wherein prior to a network event: a first server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a first plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, a second server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a second plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, and a third server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a third plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, and wherein subsequent to the network event , based on the statistics maintained by the control circuitry: a first portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the second server , and a second portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the third server . control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is operable to maintain statistics regarding file system requests sent by one or more client devices of a plurality of client devices to one or more IP addresses of a set of IP addresses, wherein each IP address of the set of IP addresses is an address of one of a plurality of computing devices and each one of the plurality of client devices is allocated a respective subset of the set of IP addresses to be used as a destination address for one or more file system requests, and wherein prior to a network event: a first server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a first plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, a second server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a second plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, and a third server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a third plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, a first server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a first plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, a second server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a second plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, and a third server of the plurality of computing devices is operable to serve a file system request destined to any of a third plurality of IP addresses of the set of IP addresses, and wherein subsequent to the network event , based on the statistics maintained by the control circuitry: a first portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the second server , and a second portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the third server . a first portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the second server , and a second portion of the first plurality of IP addresses is reassigned to the third server . <EOS>