Patent ID: 7953894

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry, residing, at least in part, at a first network node, the circuitry being initiate, at least in part, replicating, at least in part, at the first network node of at least one file space residing, at least in part, at a second network node, the circuitry also being to detect, at least in part, modification at the second network node of the at least one file space and to initiate, at least in part, corresponding modification at the first network node of a replication of at least one file space, the circuitry also being to initiate, at least in part, replicating, at least in part, at the first network node of at least one other file space residing, at least in part, at a third network node, the circuitry also being to generate, at least in part, an aggregated directory structure at the first network node that includes, at least in part, both the at least one file space and the at least one other file space, the aggregated directory structure being provided, at least in part, to the second network node prior, at least in part, to completion of the replicating, at least in part, at the first network node of the at least one file space and the at least one other file space, the second network node being to access, after the completion of the replicating at the first network node of the at least one other file space, a copy of at least one other file space in the aggregated directory structure at the first network node, the second network node being to access, prior to the completion of the replicating at the first network node of the at least one other file space, the at least one other file space at the third network node via an aggregated mapping in the aggregated directory structure at the first network node.