A method suitable for a computing device having a storage volume, a ghosting filter, a ghosting manager, an application and a file system managing the storage volume, the method comprising the steps of: receiving (501, 601) by the file system from the application an open command with respect to a ghosted file on the storage volume, wherein a non-ghosted file has been converted to the ghosted file by removing data from the non-ghosted file, wherein the data has been moved to a sink, and wherein metadata of the ghosted file comprises an attribute signaling that the ghosted file is a ghosted file and ghosting information, the ghosting information comprising an ID and information on how to locate the sink, the ID being stored with and identifying the removed data at the sink; intercepting by the ghosting filter an error returned by the file system, the error being returned since the ghosted file does not contain the data; retrieving (503, 607) via the file system the ghosting information in the metadata of the ghosted file; creating by the ghosting filter a buffer and a handle corresponding to the ghosted file and delivering the handle to the application as response to the open command; receiving by the ghosting filter a read command for the ghosted file from the application, the read command having the handle as a parameter; storing by the ghosting filter the read command in a queue; and initiating by the ghosting filter reconstituting of the ghosted file, wherein reconstituting comprises: issuing to the ghosting manager a request to obtain a portion of the data of the ghosted file from the sink, whereby the ghosting manager does in fact obtain such requested portion of the data from the sink; receiving the requested portion of the data of the ghosted file from the identified ghosting manager at the ghosting filter; and writing by the ghosting filter the received portion of the data to the ghosted file via the file system. receiving (501, 601) by the file system from the application an open command with respect to a ghosted file on the storage volume, wherein a non-ghosted file has been converted to the ghosted file by removing data from the non-ghosted file, wherein the data has been moved to a sink, and wherein metadata of the ghosted file comprises an attribute signaling that the ghosted file is a ghosted file and ghosting information, the ghosting information comprising an ID and information on how to locate the sink, the ID being stored with and identifying the removed data at the sink; intercepting by the ghosting filter an error returned by the file system, the error being returned since the ghosted file does not contain the data; retrieving (503, 607) via the file system the ghosting information in the metadata of the ghosted file; creating by the ghosting filter a buffer and a handle corresponding to the ghosted file and delivering the handle to the application as response to the open command; receiving by the ghosting filter a read command for the ghosted file from the application, the read command having the handle as a parameter; storing by the ghosting filter the read command in a queue; and initiating by the ghosting filter reconstituting of the ghosted file, wherein reconstituting comprises: issuing to the ghosting manager a request to obtain a portion of the data of the ghosted file from the sink, whereby the ghosting manager does in fact obtain such requested portion of the data from the sink; receiving the requested portion of the data of the ghosted file from the identified ghosting manager at the ghosting filter; and writing by the ghosting filter the received portion of the data to the ghosted file via the file system. issuing to the ghosting manager a request to obtain a portion of the data of the ghosted file from the sink, whereby the ghosting manager does in fact obtain such requested portion of the data from the sink; receiving the requested portion of the data of the ghosted file from the identified ghosting manager at the ghosting filter; and writing by the ghosting filter the received portion of the data to the ghosted file via the file system.