US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Maintaining metadata consistency of a mounted file system during runtime" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,125, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Maintaining metadata consistency of a mounted file system during runtime" was invented by Robert Thompson (Austin, Texas), Kenneth Anderson (Leander, Texas), Yanhua Yang (Williamson, Texas), Rama Mothey Tenjarla (Austin, Texas) and Roy Glenn Spencer (Williamson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within metadata of a mounted file system with a file system transaction logging capability, a set of inodes is identified, each inode in the set of inodes comprising a data structure identifying a file system storage location of a portion of a fi...