1. A method, comprising: storing a data entity in a network storage system; maintaining a file representation of the data entity in the network storage system; maintaining an object representation of the data entity in the network storage system; accepting a file protocol to access the file representation of the data entity, wherein the file representation has a first set of access characteristics comprising non-atomic operations; and accepting an object protocol to access the object representation of the data entity, wherein the object representation has a second set of access characteristics atomic operations.