Patent ID: 8805880

Claim:
A method, in a server data processing system, for remote transitive name space access, the method comprising: responsive to receiving a protocol packet for accessing a destination file system from a client, determining whether the destination file system is a local file system or a remote file system; responsive to determining the destination file system is a local file system, processing the protocol packet at the server data processing system; responsive to determining the destination file system is a remote file system, identifying a flag in the protocol packet; responsive to the flag comprising a global mount flag, establishing a transitive mount of the remote file system within a global namespace of the server data processing system; responsive to the flag comprising a session mount flag, establishing a transitive mount of the remote file system within a private namespace of the server data processing system for the client, wherein the private namespace is invisible to other clients of the server data processing system; and responsive to the flag comprising a multiplex flag, forwarding the protocol packet to the destination file system.