A method and system for accessing a file in a global file system. The method includes sending, from a client device to a global file system storing a file, a request to access a portion of the file, wherein the global file system includes at least one object storage system and at least one server, wherein the data of the file is stored in a plurality of objects stored in the at least one object storage system; receiving a cloud file descriptor from the at least one server, wherein the cloud file descriptor includes a plurality of download tokens utilized to retrieve at least one object of the plurality of objects from the at least one object storage system, wherein the at least one object includes the requested portion of the file; and accessing the portion of the file using the cloud file descriptor.