Patent ID: 11880338
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising, in response to determining that the real inode file has been shared as a result of a snapshot, allocating, by the system, a fourth file real inode number of a new real inode file of the file object for the hard link, associating, by the system, the virtual inode number of the hard link with the fourth file real inode number to disassociate the hard link from the real inode file of the file object, updating, by the system, the hard link data store entries to include the fourth real inode number, copying, by the system, the real inode file of the file object to the new file real inode for the hard link, reducing, by the system, a first weight in the real inode file of the file object by a reduced amount, updating, by the system, a second weight in the new real inode file for the hard link based on the reduced amount, and writing, by the system, the data into the new real inode file.