US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 27 for "Fileset replication through namespace metadata indexing using a key value store on a cluster filesystem" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,591, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Fileset replication through namespace metadata indexing using a key value store on a cluster filesystem" was invented by Charles Hickey (Aptos, Calif.), Murthy V. Mamidi (Queen Creek, Ariz.) and Neerajkumar Chourasia (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "File names and inodes are indexed directly in a filesystem namespace consisting of a layered set of key value store (KVS) database logical tables. The KVS is used directly for organizing file and directory metadata on a cluster file system instead of traditional Btree structures. A name hash in...