A POLICY AWARE UNIFIED FILE SYSTEM

摘要

A system and method for operating a policy aware unification file system within a computer system that takes into account the security requirements of each file system as each file system is unified into the unified file system. As the invention is compatible with existing run time policies of files and directories within each file system that is to be unified, the invention supports the enforcement of security policies or requirements of each file and/or directory that has been unified into the unified file system.