Patent ID: 8566636

Claim:
A system comprising: a shared nothing clustered file system distributed set of server nodes, including a first server node and a second server node; wherein the file system includes: a first copy of a first application local to the first server node stored in a first write affinity region of the first server node, a second copy of the first application stored in a second write affinity region local to the second server node, a third copy of the first application stored across wide striping regions in the cluster; a service manager to locally serve the first application from the first server node; a copy manager to specify a number of replication copies of the first application for wide striping regions; and following failure of the first application by the service manager, a recovery manager to move processing of the first application to the second server node being supported with the second copy in the second write affinity region and to communicate with the copy manager to recover the failed first application with the third copy.