Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Efficient transfer of copy-on-write snapshots
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Application No.: US16050676Application Date: 2018-07-31
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Publication No.: US11249852B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Dinesh Israni
- Applicant: Portworx, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Altos
- Assignee: Portworx, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Portworx, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Altos
- Agency: ALG Intellectual Property, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Copy-on-Write (CoW) snapshots share data on disk for extents that have not been overwritten, which allows for efficient use of disk space. A chain of snapshots may be created, where each snapshot corresponds to a point in time. A sequence of snapshots may be copied by rebuilding each snapshot for the destination volume based on the source volume, resulting in memory usage at the destination volume substantially similar to the memory usage of the snapshot sequence at the source volume.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200042393A1 EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF COPY-ON-WRITE SNAPSHOTS Public/Granted day:2020-02-06
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