ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,486, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Copying a file system" was invented by Subramaniam Periyagaram (Campbell, Calif.), Dirk Meister (Mountain View, Calif.), Zoheb Shivani (Newark, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative data storage system is configured to use pods to efficiently copy files systems constructed of block objects. In certain examples, the storage system generates, based on a pod that includes a file system constructed of block objects, a virtual copy of the pod such that modifications made to the pod (e.g., modifications to con...