US Patent Issued to VMware on Feb. 11 for "Avoiding data inconsistency in a file system using 2-level synchronization" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,904, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Avoiding data inconsistency in a file system using 2-level synchronization" was invented by Mahesh Hiregoudar (Bangalore, India), Prasanna Aithal (Bangalore, India), Prasad Rao Jangam (Bangalore, India), Srinivasa Shantharam (Bangalore, India), Rohan Pasalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Srikanth Mahabalarao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronously executing input/output operations (IOs) for a plurality of applications using a storage device with a file system includes the steps of: receiving a first write IO including an instruction...