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The methods and systems for organizing and managing a file system on top of a content addressable object store are provided. User content is associated with a record including a content hash associated with an address in the content addressable object store. The content hash is a function of user content and determined by dividing the file into data objects, generating a pointer tree of hashes on top of the data objects, and calculating a hash of the root of the pointer tree. The record, the pointer tree, and the file are stored in the object store. Reading user content from the object store includes reading the record, fetching the content hash to find a root of the pointer tree, descending leaves of the pointer tree to read the hashes of the data objects associated with user content, and reassembling the data objects in sequential file data.
