US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Preserving inode number information in in-band migration of source filesystem to destination filesystem" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,678, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Preserving inode number information in in-band migration of source filesystem to destination filesystem" was invented by Ahsan Rashid (Piscataway, N.J.), Morgan A Clark (South Orange, N.J.) and Walter Forrester (Berkeley Heights, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Migration of information, comprising inode numbers, from source filesystem to destination filesystem can be performed and managed. Migrator component can partition inode subspace of destination filesystem into first inode subspace region, comprising first subgroup of inode slices, and second ino...