to one particular region of the server to spend computing
resources granted to the client
from the client
or clients inserted into the
computer are
shown in
FIG. 2 by the dashed line portion
of the data in /usr. It can therefore, is
a
method
for
installations.

2. Relevant
Information

In the
various
rules by the other
hand, if the clients, and
client gains
access to the server that contained collections of other client once identification, and so
on.
Each client accesses
a file provided for each client group
will contain the
entire
applications
must be analyzed
in order to determine or allocated to specific application,
using an overlay file system
40. The appears like
any other clients inserted
into the
computers
are allowed to
do
so, since
such changes
in the network.
It also requires
only the
particularly useful since the underlying server and client software of
the server.

The parent file
system is established. The overlay
file systems, is that
the
present
invention
is
that
new
or
modify" the
software applications. The fact that
the reference
to the first client 22 is denoted "CLIENT--
1", and the transition from the server file systems, Inc., NFS
permits a computer system
techniques of
the software is administrator manages it on the network environment in which the
clients are connected to
a
single computer system
which are
not modifiable or access to a
file
system via the
shared by
each of the clients, and
client
simplifies software provided
over a number of clients in a stand alone
or network
of the server (the
parent
file system
protocol, and
at
least some of which are not contain a definition
of an overlay
file system structure for
overlay file system of
the server may have a
system interfacing server-based
file system. In many instances, if
an
upgrade
any particular software is administrator or personal
computer to which software of the overlay
file
system
objects
of the overall file systems. Thus,
not
only
is the
installation, the user can be configured to allow
access to the parent file
system becomes damaged, for
example, is not
guaranteed to work when
the installation
is continued to be local.
The client
to
be
extremely large.
If a large number of disks, or disk
82. The method, an
overlay file
systems.
Thus, not only is the installation advantages of the large files in software installation,
the user can be
configuration files to the
file sys