US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Namespace recovery for key-value store (KVS)-persisted metadata" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,003, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Namespace recovery for key-value store (KVS)-persisted metadata" was invented by George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Charles Hickey (Aptos, Calif.) and Murthy Mamidi (Queen Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Page keys are formed in a key-value store (KVS) storing metadata of a filesystem. Page keys identify pages of trees within which namespaces of logical partitions are held. Leaf pages include first and second full keys for each file. First full keys index inodes. Second full keys index filenames. Inode keys are formed in the KVS. Inode keys ident...