Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramanarayanan Ramani

Michael John Novak

Chris J Guzak

Scott David Hoogerwerf

Amnon Itamar Govrin

Oded Yehuda Shekel

Sangeeta Ranjit

Kiernon Reiniger

David Fields

Raghu Krishnamurhty

Subha Santhanam

Relja Ivanovic

Marc Wautier

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

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 conjunction with local file system metadata, the placeholders allow a file system namespace to be navigated and may also allow other operations to be performed on the file system objects even when the client is offline with respect to the remote file system. After connectivity is re-established with the remote file system, the placeholders may be used in synchronizing changes.

File management with placeholders

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