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Raghu Krishnamurhty

Michael John Novak

Chris J Guzak

Scott David Hoogerwerf

David Fields

Amnon Itamar Govrin

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Sangeeta Ranjit

Kiernon Reiniger

Ramanarayanan Ramani

Subha Santhanam

David C Fields

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to file system placeholders. In aspects, placeholders may be used by a client to represent remote file system objects. The placeholders may include metadata and may also include none, some, or all of the content of the represented remote file system objects. In response to a request to access content of a file system object represented by a placeholder, a client may obtain needed data from a remote storage system and stream or not stream the data to the requesting application based on whether the requesting application is capable of streaming the data.

Streaming content and placeholders

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