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Neal R. Christiansen
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 59
Citations - 962
Neal R. Christiansen is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: File system & Stub file. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 59 publications receiving 962 citations. Previous affiliations of Neal R. Christiansen include Novell.
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Virtual disk storage techniques
John A. Starks,Dustin L. Green,Todd William Harris,Mathew John,Senthil Rajaram,Karan Mehra,Neal R. Christiansen,Chung Lang Dai +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe techniques for storing virtual disk payload data in an exemplary configuration, each virtual disk extent can be associated with state information that indicates whether the virtual disk file is described by a virtual disk.
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Method and system for implementing objects in a storage system
TL;DR: In this paper, a system for implementing an object in a storage system is described, which includes the ability to register at run-time classes and methods associated with the classes which provide class functionality from objects instantiated from the class.
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Method and system of detecting file system namespace changes and restoring consistency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method and system for maintaining namespace consistency between selected objects maintained by a file system and a filter associated therewith, while the file system is attached to the filter and persisted in non-volatile storage.
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Application-Managed File Versioning
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) can be exposed that allow the application to manage file versions, such as creating a new version of a file, identifying one or more versions of the file, listing one or multiple versions of files, and deleting files.
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System and method for managing file names for file system filter drivers
TL;DR: In this paper, a method and system that manages filenames for filter drivers in a file system is described, which includes a filter manager that handles filename queries from the filter drivers.