> a more efficient setup for your particular application Yeah, once you get past ad hoc applications, one common way to set this up is to setup a cluster/batch

> a more efficient setup for your particular application Yeah, once you get past ad hoc applications, one common way to set this up is to setup a cluster/batch scheduler. This lets your jobs be run on an available node. You don't get the same chroot/fuse filesystem voodoo, but once you have a cluster, then an NFS mount for applications is a common setup.