Patent ID: 9569110
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for efficient management of cloned data, the method comprising: one or more processors of a computer system receiving a request to update a first data element of a first child clone, the one or more processors determining that the first data element and the second data element are identical and that the first block of physical storage and the second block of physical storage identify a same physical storage location; the one or more processors identifying a first preallocated block of physical storage of the set of physical blocks that is large enough to store the updated first data element; the one or more processors storing the updated first data element in the first preallocated block of physical storage; and the one or more processors updating the first child file block to identify that the updated first data element is stored in the first preallocated block of physical storage.