1. A system for managing a plurality of file system processes within an audio/video file system, comprising: a process status monitor for maintaining respective status information pertaining to said plurality of file system processes; and a plurality of local process objects, each local process object having a plurality of variables stored at a dedicated location; wherein each local process object corresponds to a file system process; wherein said plurality of file system processes are executed in accordance with their corresponding status information; and wherein upon execution of each of said plurality of file system processes, said plurality of variables from the corresponding local process object is retrieved from said dedicated location.