An on-disk storage arrangement increases the number of persistent
consistency point images (PCPIs) that may be maintained for a volume of a
storage system. The on-disk storage arrangement comprises a novel volume
information (volinfo) block representing a root of the volume; the
volinfo block is stored at predefined locations on disk and comprises
various system wide configuration data. The volinfo block further
comprises a data structure configured to provide a level of indirection
that increases the number of PCPIs maintainable by a file system
executing on the storage system. To that end, the data structure may be
organized as an array of pointers, wherein each pointer references a
block containing a snapshot root, thereby enabling efficient access to
each PCPI maintained by the file system.