ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,567, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Index node distribution and disaggregation" was invented by Adrian Michaud (Carlisle, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing the storage of metadata includes a client device, a network, and two or more file system servers, including a first file system server and a second file system server. The first file system server is programmed to: receive a request for a file system object from the client device, in response to the request: make a determination that the second file system server is to manage the file system object, based on the d...