US Patent Issued to NetApp on Dec. 2 for "Distributed file system with disaggregated data management and storage management layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,778, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed file system with disaggregated data management and storage management layers" was invented by Ravikanth Dronamraju (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Arindam Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data storage using a distributed file system. A file system volume associated with a write request received at a data management subsystem is identified. A logical block device associated with the file system volume is identified. A plurality of data blocks is formed based on the write request. The plurality of data blocks is dis...