ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,379, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Cloning a clustered file system" was invented by Ramesh Kannan Karuppusamy (Bengaluru, India), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Murthy Mamidi (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Lomesh Meshram (Bangalore, India) and Arun Kumar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key value store is maintained in which the key value store includes pages of a B+ Tree structure holding file metadata of a logical partition of a filesystem. The pages are associated with keys through which the pages are retrieved from the key value store. The keys are named. A clone is created o...