Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jean Ghanem

Bradley Gene Calder

Andrew James Edwards

Jiesheng Wu

Matthew Douglas Hendel

Shuvabrata Ganguly

David Allen Goebel

Ishai Ben Aroya

Ozan Demir

Jaidev Haridas

Jaiden Haridas

In various embodiments, methods and systems for providing access to file systems are provided. An SFA-based operation having an operation modifier for a file in a file system is received. The SFA-based operation is defined based on a file-representational state transfer (REST) interface. The SFA-REST interface comprises integrated functionality of an SFA protocol and REST protocol. The SFA-based operation is executed using the operation modifier. A REST-based operation for the file in the distributed file storage is received. The REST-based operation is defined based on the SFA-REST interface. The operation modifier is referenced in order to execute the REST-based operation. The REST-based operation based on the SFA-REST interface. A schema can be implemented for accessing the file system. The schema includes tables to store files, the table comprises fields corresponding to elements of a SFA-REST interface. A snapshot component can be implemented to backup file shares in the file system.

File service using a shared file access-rest interface

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Jean Ghanem