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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Blaine R. Young, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce L. Green, Seattle, WA (US);
Raja S. Ganjikunta, Redmond, WA (US);
Minxiao Zhou, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brett A. Muzzey, Seattle, WA (US);
Blaine R. Young, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce L. Green, Seattle, WA (US);
Raja S. Ganjikunta, Redmond, WA (US);
Minxiao Zhou, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brett A. Muzzey, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One or more levels of a stub directory from a container file are written out to a storage device. The stub directory initially includes identifiers of one or more directories in the one or more levels of the stub directory but not identifiers of additional directories in the one or more directories. In response to a request to access one of the one or more directories, identifiers of one or more additional directories and/or one or more files in the one directory are extracted from the container file.