1. A dispersed storage device for use within a dispersed storage network, comprising: an interface; and a processing module operable to: receive, via the interface, a data object to be stored and a user file name of the data object; calculate a data compression function of the data object; create a file identifier based on a result of the data compression function; create a source name for the data object using the file identifier; and link the user file name to the source name in a file system directory.