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title: "Accessing Subdirectories of Multi-Protocol Views"
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# Accessing Subdirectories of Multi-Protocol Views

Directories created inside views via other protocols (NFS, SMB), are accessible by S3 clients. To derive the key for accessing a file under a nested path as an S3 object, prepend the file path relative to the view path to the file name.

For example, supposing:

- A view is created on path `​dev/​`​ mounted by an NFS client.
- An NFS client creates a directory `src` under the mounted view and saves the file ​component​​ under the directory.

The key for accessing the file ​component​ as an S3 object is `src/component`​.