Patent ID: 8392568

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a storage subsystem configured to provide a storage area for reading and writing files; a plurality of nodes configured to provide a file sharing service to at least one user; a server configured to unify the plurality of nodes and to provide this as a single name space to a client; and a management apparatus comprising one or more computers for managing each of the nodes and the server, wherein the management apparatus: collects, from each of the nodes, management information and an access log of each of the files managed by the relevant node, extracts a user who satisfies a prescribed condition as a key person for each of the nodes based at least in part on the collected management information and access log of each of the files, and specifies the key person who is common to the plurality of nodes among the extracted key persons, wherein the prescribed condition comprises that (i) the key person is a user who created at least one file in the server and (ii) a total number of times that other users using the server refer to the at least one file created by the key person and a number of links from other files to the at least one file created by the key person exceeds a predetermined number, and requests the server to integrate, as a single name space, the plurality of nodes in which the number of common key persons exceeds a predetermined first threshold, wherein the server integrates, as a single name space, the plurality of nodes in which the number of common key persons exceeds a predetermined first threshold in response to the request, wherein the server determines a share effect of the integration for each of the single name spaces, and releases the integration which does not yield any share effect, wherein the file is able to set an access restriction, and wherein the server determines a share effect of the integration based on the number of times that access to the file managed by one node among the plurality of nodes that were integrated as a single name space ended in failure due to the access restriction.