the local area network 201 these local area networks can in turn be connected to one or more wide area networks e g the internet although the embodiment is described in the context of a cluster it should be appreciated that embodiments of the present invention can readily scale and function in distributed computer systems and or cloud based computer systems having hundreds or thousands of nodes fig2 shows the manner in which the common storage device can support the mounting and dismounting of the various file systems to which it provides data storage services the storage device 210 is typically equipped to provide high availability and redundancy while maintaining flexibility of the storage services provided to the various file systems the storage device 210 typically includes a disk array that functions by providing storage space for mounting file systems and for providing high availability and disaster recovery type functionality for the file systems fig3 shows a first exemplary implementation of a storage device in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention as depicted in fig3 the 4 nodes of the cluster 300 are coupled to node 310 which hosts a volume manager and the file system check agent the volume manager functions with a plurality of coupled luns e g disk drives solid state drives or the like to provide volumes e g data storage which can be used to mount the plurality of network file systems and.