Patent ID: 6938169

Claim:
A distributed system with a network having devices with nodes communicating over a first channel and nodes communicating over a second channel, one of the devices comprising: a secondary storage device comprising: a plurality of file system entities, a first of the file system entities accessible by the nodes communicating over the first channel and a second of the file system entities accessible by the nodes communicating over the second channel; a memory comprising: an operating system that restricts access to the first file system entity to the nodes communicating over the first channel and that restricts access to the second file system entity to the nodes communicating over the second channel; and one of the nodes that communicates over the first channel that sends a request to access the first file system entity to the operating system, wherein the one node comprises a proc structure accessed to determine that the one node communicates over the first channel; and a processor for running the operating system and for running the one node.