US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Feb. 10 for "Cloning a managed directory of a file system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,582, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cloning a managed directory of a file system" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative data storage system efficiently clones a managed directory of a file system. For example, the storage system generates a virtual clone of a managed directory of a file system such that modifications made to either of the managed directory or the virtual clone of the managed directory after the generation of the virtual clone of the managed directory are distinct from the other of the managed directory or the virtual...