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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1998
Hajime Ohnishi, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A computer system comprising a server computer and a network computer operating upon downloading programs and data necessary for data processing from the server. The network computer comprises a local storage device in which at least a part of resources including the programs and data stored in a file system of the server are stored as a replica, determination means for determining a connection state to the server, and file system allocation means for selectively allocating the file system of the server and a local file system stored as a replica in the local storage device to the network computer in accordance with the determination result made by the determination means so that a common file access pass to both the file system of the server and the local file system of the local storage device can be used.